| soul within him—Courageous, generous and loyal. Though holding a | | captain’s commission, he had, as late as 1690, never received any | | pay; but in that year the proprietorship of the Fort St. Louis | | of the Illinois was granted to him jointly with La Forest, La | | Salle’s then lieutenant—and there they carried on a fur trade; | | and in 1699, they were granted further privileges of trade, by a | | royal proclamation. In 1702, a royal order assigned La Forest to | | Canada, and Tonti to residence on the Mississippi. Tonti, in that | | year, joined D’Iberville in Lower Louisiana, and was by him sent | | to secure the alliance of the Chickasaws. His after career or the | | time of his death are unknown. | | | | Never were mutiny, conspiracy and assassination more signally | | and justly followed by retribution than in the fate of these | | miscreants who had murdered La Salle—as graphically portrayed by | | Parkman (_La Salle & the Discovery of the Great West_, ii, pp. | | 212–216. _Champlain edition._) Exiled, by their own deeds, from | | Canada; in fear of their Spanish neighbors, whose dominion they | | had invaded, they were finally overwhelmed by an Indian attack, | | many of them butchered and the fort laid waste. Compulsory | | domestication among their savage captors was the fate of the | | rest; and when, in 1689 the Spanish general Alonzo de Leon | | visited the ruined fort of St. Louis in Texas, they were handed | | over to him, and expiated their sins in the naval service or | | prisons of Spain. | | | | [126] The eldest son of Louis XIV, who had died a year or two | | before the publication of the _Fr._ original of this Journal. _C. | | C. ed._ | | | | [127] _Fr._ “overture au droit de l’œil”—opening opposite the eye. | | | | [128] _Fr._ “du gros mil”—coarse millet. | | | | [129] Bracketed words not in the French original. | | | | [130] Reprinted, Albany, 1903, edition of five hundred copies. | | | | [131] Reprinted, Albany, 1902, five hundred copies. | | | | [132] New edition, Albany, 1903. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+