CHAPTER VII.

1678.

PARTY STRIFE.

La Salle and his Reporter.--Jesuit Ascendency.--The Missions and the

Fur-trade.--Female Inquisitors.--Plots against La Salle: his Brother

the Priest.--Intrigues of the Jesuits.--La Salle poisoned: he

exculpates the Jesuits.--Renewed Intrigues. 106