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La Salle and his four canoes went back to Montreal with Jolliet and Peré; Dollier and Galinée coasted along the shores of Lake Erie westward.
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September 24, as La Salle and Dollier were dragging their canoes through the autumn-colored sumacs of the swamp, there plunged from among the russet undergrowth the two wanderers from the north, -- Jolliet and Peré, dumb with amazement to meet a score of men toiling through this tenantless wilderness.
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As for Galinée and Dollier, when they knelt in prayer that night, they fervently besought Heaven to let them carry the Gospel of truth to those benighted heathen west of Lake
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In this Earthly Paradise the priests passed the winter, holding services three times a week -- "a winter that ought to be worth ten years of any other kind of life" Dollier calculated, counting up masses and vespers and matins.
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It had been said of Dollier de Casson that once, attacked by two renegade Frenchmen, he had broken the leg of one and the back of the other, and had then picked them up and carried them for miles to shelter and nursing.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Dollier de Casson must have a field for affection to enrich.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Hearing of this idol, on reaching Detroit, Dollier and De
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes 1879
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Indian idol on the bank, similar to that which Dollier and Galinée found at Detroit; being merely a rock, bearing some resemblance to a man, and hideously painted.
France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858
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Dollier said mass; La Salle and his followers received the sacrament, as did also those of his late colleagues; and thus they parted, -- the Sulpitians and their party descending the Grand River towards Lake Erie, while La Salle, as they supposed, began his return to Montreal.
France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858
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On this, the Seminary priests resolved to essay their conversion; and an expedition, to be directed by Dollier, was fitted out to this end.
France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858
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