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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
1675. mandel. The fourth African company, with the Stuarts for stockholders, and the slave trade for its 1674. object, soon found a rival in the Senegal company; 1679. and, just at the time when the French king was most zealous for the conversion of the Huguenots, he estab- 1685. lished a Guinea company to trade from Sierra Leo mighty cataract,—fittest emblem of eternity,—now Chap. XX.} sending forward a detachment into the country of the Illinois to prepare the way for his reception. 1679. Under the auspices of La Salle, Europeans first pitched a tent at Niagara; it was he who, in 1679, amidst the salvo from his little artillery, and the chanting 1679, amidst the salvo from his little artillery, and the chanting of the Te Deum, and the astonished gaze of the Senecas, first launched a wooden vessel, a bark of sixty tons, on the upper Niagara River, and, in the Griffin, freighted with the colony of fur-traders for the valley of the Mississippi, on the seventh day of August, un- Aug. 7. furled a sail to the breezes of Lake Erie. Indifferen