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74 1705.

  M d’Iberiville’s colony, from excessive indolence, which was succeeded by want and starvation, was reduced 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 Konzer.  
  About this time an attempt is made by the English to wrest Louisiana from the possession of France.  Several armed British vessels arrived in the Mississippi for that purpose, but supposing that this river was still farther to the west, no hostilities were then committed.  Shortly after, they landed at Dauphin Island, & plundered the inhabitants of property to the amount of about fifty thousand livres.”  Ling’s Chron: 87.