. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. and city. His grateful and delighted monarch furnished him largesums of money,,four ships and 280 settlers. But, alas! little-ness and jealousy, that bane of all great enterprises, mani-fested itself in the person of Beaujean, the ship master, whomLa Salle, in mistaken kindness, failed to have hung to the Dk. C. BuRLESOlSr. 755 masthead for mutiny, and allowed the infamous wr
. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. and city. His grateful and delighted monarch furnished him largesums of money,,four ships and 280 settlers. But, alas! little-ness and jealousy, that bane of all great enterprises, mani-fested itself in the person of Beaujean, the ship master, whomLa Salle, in mistaken kindness, failed to have hung to the Dk. C. BuRLESOlSr. 755 masthead for mutiny, and allowed the infamous wretch towreck the whole expedition, and murder 280 men, women andchildren. A fearful demonstration that mercy to bad menis cruelty to good men. The infamous Beaujean caused the mistake of sailing toofar west, and instead of landing at the mouth of the Missis-sippi, landed in Matagorda Bay, at the mouth of the LavacaE-iver, January 3, 1685. After many days spent in coastingup and down the Gulf from Corpus Christi to the mouth ofthe Colorado, and wrecking one of the vessels, the dastardBeaujean took the best ship and all the sailors and all the gunshe could seize, and sneaked away in the darkness of the night,. MURDER OF LA SALLE. and left the gallant, saintly La Salle with 280 men, womenand children on an unknown shore, with only one small ves-sel. One of the ships was lost on the shore of San Domingo,and one in Matagorda Bay. La Salle went ashore and took possession by processverbal, of all that territory in the name of the grand monarch,Louis XIV. La Salle, leaving his little company and fortunder the command of a captain, hurried on to the Mississippi,to meet his faithful ally, De Tonto, who was to go via Canada,on the Upper Mississippi, and collect a large company of im- 756 The Life and Writings of jnigrants for their city, that was one day to rival Rome, Alex-andria, Paris and London. But alas! after struggling in vain with swollen streamsand hostile Indians, he was murdere
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