ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. M. RELYEA

GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers -:- New York

Copyright 1899
by
The Bowen-Merrill Company
All rights reserved

TO THE MEMORY OF
BIENVILLE
THE SOLDIER-GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA
OUT OF WHOSE
MIGHTY PROVINCE HAS GROWN NEARLY ONE-HALF
OF THE
WORLD'S GREATEST
REPUBLIC