Note 608 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

Membré’s narrative is translated in Shea’s Discovery of the Mississippi, p. 165. Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, vol. iii. There is also a separate letter of Membré in Hist. Coll. of Louisiana, ii. 206, and other documents. Cf. the annotations in Shea’s Charlevoix and Le Clercq; Falconer’s Discovery of the Mississippi, London, 1844; and the account from the Mercure gallant, May, 1684, in Margry, ii. 355; who also (i. 573) gives Tonty’s “Relation écrite de Québec, le 14 Novembre, 1684,” which Margry thinks was addressed to the Abbé Renaudot; it covers La Salle’s undertakings from 1678 to 1683.