Illinois. Dept. of Public Works and Buildings, Service, C. M · Springfield, Ill. : Schnepp & Barnes, printers · leaf 40
one of the remaining vessels, andthe other was wrecked. Thus the little colony, with all means of re-turn to France cut off, and surrounded by hostile Indians, was in adesperate condition. All attempts to find the mouth of the Mississippifailing, LaSalle, with seventeen half starved men, set out on…
