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THE FATE OF LA SALLE.
BY ROBERT H. FULLER.
In early times America was to the Spaniards a region of silver and gold,which were to be wrung from the natives and squandered in Europe; to theFrench and the Dutch it was a country of furs, which were to bepurchased from the Indians for beads, knives, and guns, and sold acrossthe sea at an enormous profit; to the English it was a land of homes,with liberty to think and act. Thus, while the Spaniards were delving inthe mines of Mexico and Peru and freighting their argosies, and whilethe French couriers of the woods were steering their fur-laden canoesdown the St. Lawrence, the English colonists along the Atlantic coastwere cultivating the soil, making and enforcing laws, and gaining afoothold which was to remain firm long after