Note 95 — AN Historical Journal OF THE Late Monsieur de la Sale’s LAST VOYAGE INTO North America To Discover the River MISSISIPI. (continued 2)

The author referred to here, is Father Douay, whose statement to this effect may be doubted, as Parkman observes that he did not “always write honestly,” and that he probably invented the story of the burial, to cover his own dereliction in having failed (through terror) to discharge this duty. See Parkman’s La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, ii, 176, 178, note, Champlain edition. This assassination occurred in a southern branch of the Trinity River.