Note 50 — Front matter

Benard de la Harpe, a French officer who came to Louisiana in 1718. His Narrative of Le Sueur’s Expedition is included by French in his Hist. Coll. of Louisiana, Part III, page 19 et seq., and is also given by Shea, Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, Albany, 1861, reprint, 1908. For a lengthy bibliographical note of this work, see A. McF. Davis in Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History, Vol. V, page 63.