LA HONTAN, AnmANn Louts DE DELONDARCE, Baron de, 1666-1715; b. France. He went to Canada in 1683 as a common soldier; made two excursions far into the then scarcely known regions of the lakes, and subsequently published several volinesdescrib ing the country and the Indian tribes between Montreal and Mackinac. Doubt was at one time thrown on the verity of his travels by the inaccuracy of his observations; but there is ample proof that at least he was at the points which he describes. He was its various military expeditions sent against the Indians; was at Michilimackinac and Sault St. Marie in 1688, at Green Bay in 1689, and claims to have been ou the upper Mississippi about this time. He returned to France in 1690; came back the next year; was bearer of dispatches from count Frontenac to the French government soon after. On his way to France the Vessel in which he embarked put into Placentia Fay, Newfoundland, where La Houten aided in the defense of the port against an attack by the English with so much spirit that he received the appointment of lieutenant in 'Newfoundland and Acadia. Quarreling with the governor he was dismissed from the French service,
escaped to Portugal, and thence made his way through Spain to Denmark and England. In 1703 he published at the Hague in Holland his adventures in America under the title Nouveau Voyage dans l'Atnerique Septrionale, comprenant Plusieurs Relations des Differents Peoples gal autbite, etc., in 2 vols. In 1703 he published at Amsterdam one volume in continuation, entitled Suite du Voyage de l'Ainerique, etc. His accounts of the lake region of America were misleading to the geographers of his tune, and contain so much of fictionas to be now valueless.