Volume 7

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index.

  • Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in going from one extremity of the colony to the other. These difficulties of fituation are the greateft which the French have had to furmount in form- ing fettlements at Louifiana. The Engliffi, fettled in the Eafl^ have been always fo affiduoufly employed in their planta- tions, that they have never thought of any thing but of extending and improving them. The fpirit of conqueft or of plunder hath not diverted them from their labours. Had they been inclined tojealoufy, the French did not behave fo as to excite it. The Spaniards, unfortunately for themfelves^ were more turbulent in the Weft. The defire of removing an adlive neighbour from New Mexico induced them, in 1720, to adopt the fcheme of forming a confiderable colony far beyond the boundaries within which they had hitherto con- fined themfelves. The numerous caravans that were to compofe this colony fet out from Santa Fé. They direded their march towards the Ozages, whom they wiflied to induce to take up arms againft their eternal enemies, the Miftburys, whofe territory they had refolved to occuj:^. The Spaniards mifted their way, and came direclly to that nation the ruin of which they y;efe'medi- tating ; and miftaking thefc Indiansi^^r the Oza- ges, communicated their defign'* without any referve. • •' The chief of the Miftburys, who became ac- quainted, by this fingular miftake, with the dan- ger that thieatened him and his people, dilfem- D 2 bled