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1705. M d’Iberiville’s colony , from excessive indolence, which was unclear by want and starvation, was reduce to one hundred & fifty persons. Upwards of sixty persons perished with hunger, during the short administration of this government. This defection, however, is attributable in a great measure to the mistaken policy and bad management of the French Government, who reserved to themselves the power of devising colonial measures, not even excepting those of a local & sumptuary nature. The Missouri River is explored by the French to the mouth of the Honzer.