i. 315;

proposes to explore the Missouri, i. 354.

“La Société,” ii. 290.

La Touche, letter from Cadillac to, i. 27; on the accusations against Brouillan, i. 114.

La Tour, feudal claimant of Acadia, ii. 61.

La Tressillière, Ensign, ii. 311.

Launay, Seigneur de, see _La Mothe, Jean de_.

“Launceston,” the, ii. 84, 93.

Laumet, Seigneur de, see _La Mothe, Jean de_.

Laurain, i. 354.

Lauverjat, Father, among the Penobscots, i. 244, 245.

La Vallière, Sieur de, ii. 125, 290.

La Valterie, Sieur de, i. 179; ii. 239.

Laval University, at Quebec, i. 211.

La Vente, curé of Mobile, i. 307; his memorial to Ponchartrain, i. 313.

La Vérendrye, Chevalier, among the Mandans, ii. 20; his adventures searching for the Pacific, ii. 22-35; discovers the Rocky Mountains, ii. 35; jealousy of rivals, ii. 35; discovers the river Saskatchewan, ii. 36; ruined hopes, ii. 37, 38; death of, ii. 42.

La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de, early history of, ii. 9; at Lake Nipigon, ii. 9; offers to search for the Western Sea, ii. 10; not supported by the King, ii. 10; privileges granted to, ii. 10; his motives, ii. 11; undertakes the expedition, ii. 11; winters at the river Kaministiguia, ii. 12; followed by a train of disasters, ii. 12; 387 avoids a war with the Sioux, ii. 13; refused aid by the court, ii. 13; goes to Montreal, ii. 13; lawsuit against, ii. 13; work accomplished by, ii. 14; secures possession of Hudson’s Bay, ii. 14; forts established by, ii. 14; fruitless inquiries, ii. 15; again starts out for the Pacific, ii. 15; among the Mandans, ii. 16-20; his journal, ii. 17; returns to Fort La Reine, ii. 18; his adventures searching for the Pacific, ii. 22-35; discovers the Rocky Mountains, ii. 35; jealousy of rivals, ii. 35; promoted to a captaincy in the colony troops, ii. 36; befriended by Galissonière, ii. 36; receives the cross of the order of St. Louis, ii. 36; death of, ii. 36; ruined hopes, ii. 37, 38; at Beauséjour, ii. 42.

La Vérendrye (son), murdered by the Sioux, ii. 13.

Law, John, undertakes to deliver France from financial ruin, i. 315; flees for his life, i. 319.

Law’s Mississippi Company, ii. 48.

Lawson, i. 107.

Le Ber, Mademoiselle, the recluse of Montreal, i. 179.

Le Blanc, the Acadian notary, ii. 173.

Le Bœuf, Fort, ii. 39.

Lechmere, Lieutenant, death of, ii. 194.

Lee, Colonel, i. 181.

Leisler, Jacob, the revolution under, i. 8.

Le Loutre, Abbé, missionary among the Micmacs, ii. 61; his absolute control over the Micmacs, ii. 173; characteristics of, ii. 179; his Micmac mission, ii. 188.

Le Moine, on the legend of the “Bell of St. Regis,” i. 92.

L’Épinay, succeeds La Mothe Cadillac as governor of Louisiana, i. 318; removed by the Mississippi Company, i. 318.

Le Petit Père, i. 321.

Le Rocher, i. 340.

Léry De, the engineer, i. 280, 294, 295, 297; on Ramesay’s expedition against Nicholson, i. 141; ii. 190.

Les Mines, ii. 126.

Lestock, Admiral, ii. 155.

Le Sueur, expedition of, i. 348-350; on the St. Peter, i. 351; among the Sioux, i. 352; returns to Louisiana, i. 353; sails for France, i. 353; returns to Louisiana, i. 353; his death, i. 353.

Leverett, John, in the attack on Port Royal, i. 129.

Lewis, Captain, among the Mandans, ii. 17; makes his way to the Pacific, ii. 35.

Lewis, C. W., on Lovewell’s Expedition, i. 270.

Lewiston Heights, ii. 52.

Lighthouse Point, ii. 120, 123, 124, 129.

Limoges, the Jesuit, i. 350.

Lignery, Sieur de, calls a council of Indians at Green Bay, i. 336; in favor of exterminating the Outagamies, i. 337; sets out on his expedition, i. 338; burns the chief village of the Outagamies, i. 339; failure of his expedition, i. 339.

Lion Rampant, the, i. 127.

L’Isle, De, manuscript map of, i. 353.

Little, Mr., ii. 315.

Little Butte des Morts, i. 340, 343.

Littlefield, Edmund, house of, i. 42. 388

Littlefield, Francis, house of, i. 42.

Little Fox Indians, the, ii. 26.

Little Harbor, Governor Wentworth’s house at, ii. 73.

Little Missouri, the, bad lands of, ii. 23, 24.

Livingston, contributes to the support of New York, i. 9.

Livingston, Captain, visits Montreal as envoy, i. 85; secures the exchange of five prisoners, i. 87.

Livingston, Philip, ii. 52.

Livingston, Robert, i. 134; urges the occupation of Detroit, i. 22.

Long Meadow, ii. 148.

Longueuil, i. 11; uses pacific measures toward the Indians, i. 336; on the scheme to reach the Pacific Ocean, ii. 6.

Longueuil (the younger), ii. 54.

Lopinot, Sieur, at Louisbourg, ii. 285, 311.

Lords of Trade, the, i. 8, 9, 12, 198, 202.

Lorembec, ii. 124, 289, 298, 299, 301.

Lorette, the Huron mission of, i. 217, 234.

Lotbinière, ii. 194.

Lothrop, Lieutenant-Colonel, ii. 144.

Louisbourg, founding of, i. 187; purely the offspring of the Crown and the Church, i. 188; the “Dunquerque of America,” i. 188; its inhabitants, i. 188; Costebelle in command at, i. 194, 200; receives news of the War of the Austrian Succession, ii. 60; English project to capture, ii. 64; a standing menace to all northern British colonies, ii. 64; its construction, ii. 64; completing plans against, 65-89; besieged by the English, ii. 90-116; location of, ii. 94; not properly prepared for the attack, ii. 96; strength of its fortifications, ii. 117; surrenders to the English, ii. 133; French losses at, ii. 133; comparative work of the army and navy at, ii. 138, 139; English documents on the siege of, ii. 144; after the conquest, ii. 145; restored to the French by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, ii. 256; the siege described by French witnesses, ii. 274-312; Duchambon’s report on the siege of, ii. 287-312;