The book La Salle And the Discovery of the Great West was written by author Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 Here you can read free online of La Salle And the Discovery of the Great West book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is La Salle And the Discovery of the Great West a good or bad book?
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— Meeting with Tonty. — Preparation. — De- parture. In tracing the adventures of Tonty and the rovings of Hennepin, we have lost sight of La Salle, the pivot of the enterprise. Returning from the desola- tion and horror in the valley of the Illinois, he had spent the winter at Foil; Miami, on the St. Joseph, by the borders of Lake Michigan. Here he might have brooded on the redoubled ruin that had befallen him, — the desponding friends, the exulting foes ; the wasted energies, the crushing load... of debt, the stormy past, the black and lowering future. But his mind was of a different temper. He had no thought but to grapple with adversity, and out of the fragments, / of his ruin to build up the fabric of success. He would not recoil; but he modified his plans to meet the new contingency. His white enemies had found, or rather perhaps had made, a savage ally in the Iroquois. Their incursions must be stopped, or 284 LA SALLE BEGINS ANEW. [1681, his enterprise would come to nought ; and he thought he saw the means by which this new danger could be converted into a source of strength.
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