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IN WHICH A GREAT EXPLORER LISTENS AT MIDNIGHT TO A TALE OF LOVE “ Louis le Grand , King of France and Navarre, has deserted pleasure to follow piety—and times are changed, monsieur.” The speaker, Lou…
IN WHICH DE SANCERRE IS CONFRONTED BY A MYSTERY Like a statue done in bronze stood Chatémuc before a hastily-constructed hut at the rear of the log fort in which the rank and file of the explorers l…
IN WHICH A MAIDEN SHOWS HER HEART Sieur de la Salle’s temporary stockade had been erected upon the western bank of the great river, and his followers had received with delight the report that their …
IN WHICH DE LA SALLE REACHES A FATEFUL DECISION “ I have heard it said that the good Father le Jeune, the Jesuit, not speaking Algonquin, was obliged to expound the mysteries of the faith to the Mon…
IN WHICH A DAUGHTER GRANTS A FATHER’S WISH Late in the afternoon of a day in April, just one year before the date of the occurrences recorded in the foregoing chapters of this tale, Don Rodrigo de A…
IN WHICH JUAN RODRIQUEZ UNDERGOES AN UNPLEASANT HALF-HOUR In the year 1681 the fickle Guadalquivir still pursued a liberal policy toward Seville and vouchsafed sufficient water to that port to enabl…
IN WHICH JUAN RODRIQUEZ TAKES HIS REVENGE The voyage of the Concepcion , thus inauspiciously begun, continued with fair weather upon the sea and squalls threatening aboard the ship. Doña Julia spent…
IN WHICH SATAN HAS HIS WAY WITH THE CONCEPCION Dawn crept sullenly across the heaving bosom of the gulf, as if disaffected by the night’s dark deed. The sun gazed for a moment upon a ship accursed, …
IN WHICH TWO CHILDREN OF THE SUN ASTONISH A SCOUNDREL Before the day was ended the winds and waves had signed a truce, but on the beach, far to the westward of the Mississippi’s mouth, lay ghastly t…
IN WHICH THE CROSS IS CARRIED TO A CITY OF IDOLATERS “ I have learned something of these proud pagans, Chatémuc. They are worshippers of fire; fruit ripe to pluck, to the greater glory of Mother Chu…
