The Journey of Moncacht-Apé: An Indian of the Yazoo Tribe, Across the Continent, About the Year 1700 (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Journey of Moncacht-Apé: An Indian of the Yazoo Tribe, Across the Continent, About the Year 1700

To understand the merit of the arguments upon which he bases his faith in the story, it is essential that the whole of the story should be read, otherwise one can neither appreciate the importance attached to the verisimilitude of its style, nor measure the value of the coincidences between the statements of the Indian concerning this unknown region and the facts as revealed by Lewis and Clark and other subsequent explorers.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Excerpt from The Journey of Moncacht-Apé: An Indian of the Yazoo Tribe, Across the Continent, About the Year 1700

In the autumn of 1718 M. LePage du Pratz landed in America. in company with about eight hundred others forwarded by the "Company of the West" he had come to this country to settle. He first located near New Orleans, where Blenvilie was then just starting a new settlement, but the situation of his grant proving unhealthy, he shortly afterwards moved up to Natchez. There he secured a farm, on which he spent eight of the sixteen years he was in this country. He had served in the army in Germany and had received a air education. He was of a speculative turn of mind, fond of theorizing and always on the alert for information. While at Natchez he collected and transmitted to Paris no less than three hundred plants used by the Indians as remedies. He cultivated the friendship of his Indian neighbors and studied their habits and their language. In 1758 he published at Paris his "Histoire de la Louisiane," in which in addition to the personal experiences and observations there recorded he has treasured up much that he garnered from conversations with the old men of the tribes concerning the traditions of their origin, their religion and their forms of government.

The importance attached to one of these conversations by M. de Quatrefages, in an article in the Revue d' Anthropologie,' is the occasion of this paper. The story of Moucacht-Apt's journey across the continent and of his encounter with the bearded white men on the North Pacific Coast of this country, has, to all intents and purposes, slumbered in the pages of LePage du Pratz until it was revived by de Quatrefages, who takes pride in the thought that he is, as he believes, the first to call attention to its importance.

To understand the merit of the arguments upon which he bases his faith in the story, it is essential that the whole of the story should be read, otherwise one can neither appreciate the importance attached to the verisimilitude of its style, nor measure the value of the coincidences between the statements of the Indian concerning this unknown region and the facts as revealed by Lewis and Clark and other subsequent explorers.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.