of the present re-publication. I have captioned them with present-day
names of the flora and fauna.

STANLEY CLISBY ARTHUR.

(_Mr. Arthur is a naturalist, historian and writer, and
executive-director of the Louisiana State Museum.--J. S. W.
Harmanson, Publisher_.)




CONTENTS


Preface

BOOK I.
The Transactions of the French in Louisiana.

CHAP. I.
Of the first Discovery and Settlement of Louisiana

CHAP. II.
The Return of M. de St. Denis: His settling the Spaniards
at the Assinais. His second Journey to Mexico, and Return
from thence

CHAP. III.
Embarkation of eight hundred Men by the West-India Company