The history of the Louisiana purchase . ciate a brave man andgave him a fleet and resources. If only the 11 History of The Louisiana Purchase Huguenots, driven out by tlie Revocation oftlie Edict of Nantes just at this time, couldhave come to New France as the exiled Puri-tans fifty years before had come to New Eng-land ! But even the wdlderness had no hos-pitality for them; no Protestant could setfoot in New France. There was no popularmovement thither of any kind. Misfortuneovertook La Salle. His fleet was wrecked;amono^ his followers he seems to have had nofaithful friend but Tonty, and he
The history of the Louisiana purchase . ciate a brave man andgave him a fleet and resources. If only the 11 History of The Louisiana Purchase Huguenots, driven out by tlie Revocation oftlie Edict of Nantes just at this time, couldhave come to New France as the exiled Puri-tans fifty years before had come to New Eng-land ! But even the wdlderness had no hos-pitality for them; no Protestant could setfoot in New France. There was no popularmovement thither of any kind. Misfortuneovertook La Salle. His fleet was wrecked;amono^ his followers he seems to have had nofaithful friend but Tonty, and he was far tothe north among the Illinois. Mutiny thathad followed him from thefirst now took the upperhand in the wretched com-pany that remained tohim, and his life went outin a Texas waste imderthe weapons of his ownmen. But the line of greatcolonizers was by no meansextinct. The mantle of La Salle fell uponPierre Le Moyne dIberville, who perhapswas not inferior to him in force or fire. Iber-ville, a young Canadian seigneur, won his 12. Ue^i^-cuUe^^^ How Louisiana Came to Be spurs by driving the Englisli out of Hudson Bay, establishing a control in the north that endured for years. He was as efficient in tropic seas, on the Spanish Main, as among the icebero-s. But his chief desert was the es- tablishment upon the Gulf of Mexico of a secure French colony, which made it possible for his young brother Bienville, a few years later, in 1717, to lay the foundation of New Orleans. As the eighteenthcentury proceeds thecolonizing of Louisi-ana goes on in a course characteristicallyFrench. The nation takes little interest, fewvoluntary settlers coming to the new coun-try ; when immigrants appear, it is to huntgold or fur-bearing beasts among the savages,in desultory wandering, rather than to tillthe soil and establish homes. The Govern-ment is quite indifferent. In the evil days ofthe Kegency, and of Louis XV, the colony is 18
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