 | John Gilmary Shea - Mississippi River - 1852 - 364 pages
...down, we entered a village of the Tangibao,* which had been recently sacked and plundered ; we found there three cabins full of human bodies dead for fifteen...After we had chanted the hymn of the church, " Vexilla Begis," and the " Te Deum," the sieur de la Salle, in the name of his majesty, took possession of that... | |
 | JOHN GILMARY SHEA - 1853 - 360 pages
...down, we entered a village of the Tangibao,* which had been recently sacked and plundered ; we found there three cabins full of human bodies dead for fifteen...France. After we had chanted the hymn of the church, " Y exilia Eegis," and the "Te Deum," the sieur de la Salle, in the name of his majesty, took possession... | |
 | Chrestien Le Clercq - Canada - 1882 - 386 pages
...accompanied, the middle one. These three channels are beautiful and deep. The water was brackish ; after two leagues \ it became perfectly salt, and advancing on, we discovered the open sea, so that on the 9th of April, with all possible solemnity, we performed the ceremony of planting the cross and raising... | |
 | Chrestien Le Clercq - Canada - 1882 - 424 pages
...middle one. These three channels are beautiful and deep. The water was brackish ; after two leagues J it became perfectly salt, and advancing on, we discovered the open sea, so that on the gth of AprilL with all possible solemnity, we performed the ceremony of planting the cross and raising... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Explorers - 1893 - 542 pages
...three bands, to go and explore them. He took the western, the Sieur Dautray the southern, the Sienr de Tonty, whom I accompanied, the middle one. These three...planting the cross and raising the arms of France." The priests then chanted the "Vexilla Regis" and the "Te Deum," the men shouted " Vive le Koi,"&nA... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Explorers - 1893 - 544 pages
...three bands, to go and explore them. He took the western, the Sieur Dautray the southern, the Sieur de Tonty, whom I accompanied, the middle one. These three...planting the cross and raising the arms of France." The priests then chanted the "Vexilla Regis" and the "Te Deum," the men shouted " Vive le ./fti/,"... | |
 | American literature - 1900 - 1126 pages
...is brackish; after advancing on we discovered an open sea, so that on the 9th of April, with all due solemnity, we performed the ceremony of planting the cross and raising the arms of France." Far was it from La Salle's thought that lie was preparing an empire only for conquest by his country's... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Minnesota - 1901 - 536 pages
...three bauds, to go and explore them. He took the western, the Sienr Dautray the southern, the Sieur de Tonty, whom I accompanied, the middle one. These three...perfectly salt, and advancing on we discovered the open sen, so that on the ninth of April, with all possible solemnity, we performed the ceremony of planting... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 656 pages
...1682, he arrived at a point where the river divides into three channels. As one of the party wrote : " The water is brackish; after advancing two leagues...advancing on, we discovered the open sea, so that . . . the sieur de la Salle, in the name of his majesty, took possession of that river, of all rivers... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 pages
...1682, he arrived at a point where the river divides into three channels. As one of the party wrote : " The water is brackish ; after advancing two leagues...advancing on, we discovered the open sea, so that . . . the sieur de la Salle, in the name of his majesty, took possession of that river, of all rivers... | |
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The sieur de la Salle divided his party the next day into three bands, to go and explore them. He took the western, the sieur Dautray the southern, the sieur Tonty, whom I accompanied, the middle one. These three channels are beautiful and deep. The water... 
