France and England in North America, Part III: The Discovery of the Great West (1870)

CHAPTER VIII.

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1678. PARTY STRIFE.

La Salle and his Reporter.--Jesuit Ascendancy.--The Missions and the Fur-Trade.--Female Inquisitors.--Plots against La Salle.--His Brother the Priest.--Intrigues of the Jesuits.--La Salle poisoned.-- He exculpates the Jesuits.--Renewed Intrigues.