Cameron Parish history, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller Source: History of Cameron Parish from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by William Henry Perrin. Submitted Jan 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** THE PARISH OF CAMERON-BOUNDARY AND DESCRIPTION--THE COAST MARSH--FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CAMERON-ORGANIZATION OF THE PARISH-LEGISLATIVE ACT FOR ITS CREATION-A CORRESPONDENT'S IMPRESSION OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS CAPABILITIES--ORANGE CULTURE-A FRUIT COUNTRY UNSURPASSED-WHAT THE PEOPLE MAY MAKE IT-CLIMATE, ETC.--THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS--CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS-A PARISH WELL SUPPLIED WITH MORAL INFLUENCES,ETC. "Time was not yet."--Dante. THE parish of Cameron as a body politic is comparatively young, it having been created in 1870 from portions of Calcasieu and Vermilion parishes. It partakes somewhat of the nature of both-small bits of the Calcasieu prairies being interspersed with a good deal of the sea marshes of Vermilion. It has about twelve hundred square miles, nearly three-fourths of which, perhaps, is sea marsh. From a pamphlet issued by the Commissioner of Immigration of Louisiana, the following extract is taken: "Cameron has not yet had her day. She must await the future and abide her time in patience. She will doubtless, at some near day, be a busy place in canning fish, oysters and shrimp. Her parish seat, Leesburg, is right on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Calcasieu River, and it must be that in the development that awaits that country Cameron will be greatly benefited by a situation that now seems like isolation. If deep water ever comes to the mouth of the river, Leesburg will be a great place by reason of that alone. When the immigrant takes hold of the coast marsh (as he will before the next quarter of a century), with its prodigeously fertile soil, then Cameron parish will come to the front. Great will be the crops of sugar cane, rice, sea-island cotton, oranges, vegetables, etc., while the gulf will afford cheap and delicious food for the agriculturist and an inexhaustible supply for manufacturing or preserving canned goods. So the sea and the land will both pour out their bounteous treasures to this, thus far disregarded parish. This coast marsh country ought to have more said. about it than has been. The entire front of Louisiana is on the Gulf of Mexico. Her south boundary is water, and her whole length from east to west is gulf coast." BOUNDARIES, ETC.--The parish of Cameron is bounded on the north by Calcasieu parish, on the east by Vermilion parish, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and on the west by the Sabine River and lake of the same name. The principal water courses in the parish are the Calcasieu and Mermentau Rivers. The latter flows through Grand Lake about ten miles before it falls into the gulf, and the former flows through Calcasieu Lake before it reaches the gulf. Calcasieu Lake is some fifteen miles in length and about six or seven miles wide in the widest place. When the Calcasieu Pass is deepened, for which $75,000 have already been appropriated by the National Congress, and a deep channel cut through the lake, then the largest ocean steamers can ascend the Calcasieu River, which is a deep stream, to the town of Lake Charles, some fifty-five miles from the gulf. Grand Lake is nearly square, and seven or eight miles across each way. The Lake Charles Echo of September 14, 1888, has the following of this parish: Cameron parish is just south of, and was once a art of, Calcasieu parish; it lies directly on the coast. Leesburg is the parish site, and contains a court house, jail, and one or two stores, but not a saloon in the parish. There is not a lawyer in the parish, and you may think there is no need of one when we tell you that last July was the regular Grand jury term of the District Court, and the first they had had for a year, and after a careful investigation, adjourned without finding a true bill. In interviewing Mr. D. W. Donahoe, who resides on Johnson's Bayou, in this parish, -we obtained some information of this section. In September, 1886, the same time that Sabine Pass was blotted out of existence by the storm and overflow, all of Johnson's Bayou was overflowed, which was the first time for a space of eighty years back. That portion of the bayou which lies next to Sabine Pass is lower than the eastern portion, and there sixty-seven lives were lost, and all the stock, and the principal part of the houses swept away. The eastern portion of the bayou lost little stock and no lives. Mr. Donahoe says Johnson's Bayou is rebuilt and is in a flourishing condition. Their corn will average thirty bushels per acre, and cotton, one bale. The cotton is shipped in the seed by schooners, principally to Orange, Texas, some to Galveston. The country is fine for cattle and sheep. Their fattest beeves are shipped from the range in January. They have cattle giving from two to three gallons of milk per day, from the range alone during the winter. The winter season is better for milk and butter than summer. The orange trees have made remarkable growth, especially since the overflow, as that served to enrich the land. In January, 1886, the orange trees were killed there, as here. They will gather a pretty fair crop of oranges another season. The health was never better--in fact, was always good. There was not a physician in the parish, unless there was one on the eastern border, and he was making his living by farming. Mr. Joseph Jones, of Grand Chenier, in the eastern part of the parish, says the island is about thirty miles long and two or three wide, containing perhaps more than two hundred families. There is almost one continuous, unbroken farm on the island from one end to the other. They raise what corn is necessary, making about thirty, barrels per acre, and making about one bale of cotton per acre. They had gathered over two hundred thousand pounds of cotton by the first week in September; ship by schooner to Galveston. Their orange trees were injured, like other sections, but will make some shipments this year. The trees are in flourishing condition; no bugs of any kind, and a handsome yield is expected another year. They also raise a good quality of sugar and molasses. It is a range for stock, and they keep fat winter and summer. This is a fine place for game, especially in the winter season; ducks, brant, geese, etc. There is not a doctor on the island. EARLY SETTLEMENT.--Cameron parish is not thickly settled, owing to the vast area of marsh lands in the parish. The settlements are confined to the high lands above overflow. From Mr. E. D. Miller, of Lake Charles, a native of Cameron parish, however, the following of the early settlers was obtained: Among the first families who settled in Cameron parish were those of John M. Smith and Millege McCall. They settled in Grand Chenier, and were the only two families in that immediate section for several years. McCall was quite a noted man for the period. He was an old-time doctor and practised considerably in an old-fashioned way; was also a justice of the peace, and the only one in Grand Chenier prior to the organization of the parish. He was a good man, and well liked by everybody. Both he and Smith have been dead many years. George W. Wakefield was one of the proverbial "Ohio men." He came from the State of Ohio, and settled in the parish in 1840, about a mile from where Leesburg, the parish capital, is located. He reared a large family and is still living but getting quite old and feeble. When he came here, he says, there was plenty of game, that there were more deer than cattle to be seen then on the range. Mr. Wakefield has a fine orange grove. William Doxey was from North Carolina, and came to the parish about the same time with Wakefield. He brought a number of negroes with him, and was quite an extensive sugar planter. He and Wakefield are the two oldest settlers now living. A son of Mr. Doxey, John A., has, it is said, the finest orangegrove in the parish, and one of the finest in the State. Game was plenty when Mr. Doxey settled here, and still considerable small game is found. James Hall and James Root were early settlers in the west part of the parish, and both are long since dead. A man named Griffith came about 1850, and settled in the same neighborhood. John M. Miller was one of the first settlers in the extreme eastern part of the parish. He was born in Germany, but was brought by his parents to America when but an infant, and they settled in St. Landry parish. Mr. Miller located in Cameron parish in 1847, where he died at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife at the age of eighty-five years. He was the father of Mr. E. D. Miller, a practising lawyer of Lake Charles. This comprises a list of what may be called old settlers, and brings the settlement of the parish up to about 1850, a period when people were coming in more rapidly. The small area of uplands or prairies attracted agriculturists, and the great profusion of game brought the hunter and sportsmen. Fifty years or more ago, when the first settlers came to Cameron, there were no productive farms, no pleasant homes here; no churches, no school houses, with their refining influences, but on every hand, and far as the eye could reach, a wild waste of wilderness, uninhabited, save by wild beasts and an occasional band of Indian hunters. The population of the parish is now about three thousand souls. In 1870, the population had increased sufficiently to awaken in the minds of the people the idea of organizing themselves into a parish of their own. The seat of justice was too far out of reach-at Lake Charles or at Abbeville. So at the session of the Legislature of 1870, the following act was framed: CAMERON PARISH.--An Act for its formation, etc. SECT10N I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That a new parish in the State of Louisiana be and the same is hereby created out of the southern portion of Calcasieu and the southwestern portion of Vermilion, to be called and known by the name of Cameron. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the following shall be the boundaries of the parish of Cameron, viz: commencing at a point on the Sabine River, on the township line, dividing the townships eleven and twelve south; thence east on said township line to the range line, between ranges numbered two and three west; thence south on said range line to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along the coast to the mouth of the Sabine River, and thence up the Sabine Rive, to the place of beginning. There are fifteen other sections of the act, and the entire act is printed both, in French and English, and when the end is finally reached it is signed: MORTIMER CARR, Speaker House Representative, OSCAR J. DUNN, Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate Approved March 15, 1870. GEO. E. BROWN, Secretary of State H. C. WARMOTH,. Governor of the State of Louisiana The necessary officers were appointed, and the parish was set to work according to the laws of the commonwealth. The parish seat was established at the mouth of the Calcasieu River, and is called Leesburg, but it is a town in little else except the name. It consists of a court house, one small store, and, perhaps, half a dozen other buildings. The post-office name of place is Cameron, though, as stated, the town's name is Leesburg. The parish has no jail, and but one lawyer. Neither is much needed, as there is but little litigation among the people. What little there is, Mr. Miller, of Lake Charles, who was raised in the parish, is usually employed on the one side or the other. A writer* in the Lake Charles American thus gives his opinion of Cameron parish and its citizens: With a threefold object that of health, business, and a tour for the purpose of describing the productions, scenery and attractiveness of our parish, a father and his daughter left home, on horseback, last week. We traveled a distance of about forty-five miles along the sea coast, bordering the ridges under cultivation, as far to the east as Cow Island, stopping at Mr. P. V. Miller's for the first night, where we found, as at all other places, a hearty welcome and generous hospitality. Mr. Miller is engaged in both stock raising and agriculture. He and his family own about a thousand head of fine stock, more or less graded, and the farm includes orange groves, peach orchards, and a number of large pecan trees. Crops of cotton, corn and cane remarkably good. This gentleman is one of our oldest settlers and influential citizens. Cow Island, extending about twelve miles, and the ridge, averaging one-half mile wide, are closely settled. The next of our stopping places was at the Widow Valcent Miller's, whose farm is in a remarkably good state of cultivation, Considering that it has been managed and worked by the lady, assisted only by her two daughters. After this, a place some distance farther on, owned by Mr. Thos. Bosnal, where we admired sugar cane growing, with at least eight joints, and looking both vigorous and promising. This is a new enterprise. Leaving Cow island and homeward tending, we paid a visit to our old friend, Mr. Geo. Mayne, where we found an orange grove containing about two hundred and fifty trees, of which a number measured eighteen inches in circumference and about twenty-five feet high. A majority of the trees were bearing, some, as many as seventy-five oranges. Another grove farther on, at Dr. Carter Sweeney's, looked equally as fine and vigorous, as we rode along. The next place was owned by Mr. J. D. Mc Call, our respected uncle, and who also is president of our police jury. On his land are about five hundred fine trees; on one, at least, three hundred of the desirable fruit. Adjoining, Mr. Thos. Dolan, of like flourishing property. Next Mr. John Wetherill, whose sloping garden in front, home, orchard and grove beyond, tempted us to remain. Passing onward the places of Messrs. Jones and Stafford, also with fine orange groves. Next, the beautiful residence of Messrs. Doxey and son, where, as stated last year, there has been closest and skilled cultivation of the fruit trees, and scrutiny of the diseases which infest orange trees and have puzzled horticulturists for a long period. Mr. Andrew Doxey thinks he has discovered a preventative against the ravages of the scale insect, and is sanguine of success in orange culture. This grove contains about fifteen hundred trees, some eight inches in diameter--probably the largest on our route. Close below is Mr. Andeal Miller, who has, perhaps, five hundred trees of excellent promise and variety. Some three miles further on again, delightfully situated on the bank of the Mermentau River, is the now named village of "Riverside," as suggested, at the request of the inhabitants and complimentary, by your correspondent. At this to the point are three stores and several residences, post-office and shipping post. We were informed by the respective merchants that there were at least two hundred thousand dollars' worth of business transacted there during the year, including shipments of cotton, oranges, hides, melons, poultry, eggs, etc. About a mile further on is the ferry across the Mermentau, where we were taken across by Mr. Willie Stafford, son of our esteemed aunt, Mrs. E. A. Stafford, who has been in charge of this, the principal and only ferry on the lower river, for some years. Remained all night, and with pleasant recuperation and rest, besides finding our aged grandmother, now eighty odd years of age, hale, hearty and as vivacious as probably she was at eighteen. On again next morning, two miles, and reached the home of Capt. James Welsh, where was a hearty welcome. An extensive stock owner, a flourishing farm, orange grove, and erecting a new residence. Rutherford Jones and others were passed in succession, the first of whom has availed himself of many of the latest improvements in agricultural machinery, and is cultivating his land with the skill of advanced knowledge. Mr. Jones, also, one of the most energetic and sagacious of stock raisers and farmers, whose genial hospitality many friends are pleased to remember and where we frequently visit in his family. A few miles farther, and reached home much improved in health and good nature. Your readers will perceive that all this section is prolific in cotton, corn, oranges, peaches, grapes, vegetables of every description, and last, though not least, in gigantic melons, perhaps the largest, earliest and best that can be produced in our Southern country. It is safe to surmise that at this point, above Leesburg, there could be delivered, as raised within a radius of eight miles, say, six hundred thousand melons annually, and ready for shipment from the last of May on to the end of July. If they want early melons in Kansas, or as far north is St. Louis, let there be transportation and they will be grown. ORANGE CULTURE.--Another correspondent of the American gives its readers the following on orange culture, which is a large and profitable business in Cameron parish: Last year you published an able and instructive article on "Orange Culture in Southwest Louisiana," from the pen of Hon. James Welsh, of Cameron parish. He wrote from thirty years' experience in growing and handling oranges on the gulf coast of Cameron parish, and the object of this article is not to differ with his views, but rather to mention some additional facts. Orange seed should be planted when removed from the fruit, or soon afterward; they should not be allowed to become shriveled. As Mr. Welch says, they should be the largest seed from the best fruit, and should be covered by three inches of soil. The seed bed can hardly be too highly fertilized. Mr. Welsh says the trees when three years old may be transplanted from the nursery to the orchard. That age is perhaps the best for that purpose, yet a tree six or seven years old may be transplanted without injury. Victor Touchy, the veteran orange culturist, of Lake Charles, can transplant in January an orange tree seven years old, which will bloom the next month and bear fruit the same year. I have known him to do it, and lie will guarantee to do it. Mr. Welsh says that sixty-four trees on one acre of land, at seven years from planting, will afford sufficient fruit for domestic purposes. I know that seven years from planting the seed is the generally accepted period in South West Louisiana for an orange tree to commence bearing, yet there are numerous instances in Calcasieu, Vermilion, and, I have no doubt, Cameron, parishes where orange trees have borne well developed fruit at five years from the seed. The late Dr. Win. Kirkman, of Lake Charles, informed me, some twelve years ago, that the largest orange tree he ever saw in Calcasieu parish, and which, when he first saw it, was bearing at least three thousand oranges, was on the left shore of Prien's or Little Lake, about four miles in an air line below Lake Charles; and that its owner, well known as a highly respectable and truthful resident of Calcasieu parish, assured him that it was then only five years old from the seed; that the seed came up in a deserted hog pen, and the tree grew so rapidly and luxuriantly that lie protected it by fence rails from his farm animals. My friend Desire' Hebert, of Lake Arthur, which is bordered by Calcasieu and Vermilion parishes, tells me--and I have seen newspaper communications from Lake Arthur to the same effect--that orange trees at Lake Arthur frequently bear at five years from the seed. These instances prove that in an exceptionally rich soil, in a favorable locality, with careful culture, a man may have on one acre of land oranges for market as well as for domestic use at five and six years from the seed. I mention this because Mr. Welsh says that from, sixty-four trees, on one acre of land, there may be expected, at ten years, four hundred oranges per tree; at twenty years, three thousand oranges per tree; and at thirty years, five thousand oranges per tree. His estimate was probably based on the ordinary methods grove Owners of orange culture on tracts of land embracing several acres devoted to that purpose. It seems evident that on exceptionally rich land, with exceptionally care in orange culture, largely better results may be obtained in much less time. Few persons except orange growers have any idea of the value of orange trees. About fifteen years ago a New Orleans newspaper stated that the owner also a great of six hundred bearing orange trees, a few miles below New Orleans, refused an its marsh offer of fifty thousand dollars for them, and sold his orange crop that year for seven thousand dollars. Afterward that statement was verified by a gentleman seven thousand dollars. of who informed me he had visited that orange grove, and knew its owner personally. Again, few persons are aware of the great age to which orange trees will continue bearing. In Friedley's Practical Treatise on Business, it is said that there is a bearing orange tree in Rome, Italy, known to be over three hundred years old. The orange tree has great vitality. The unprecedented freezing weather of two weeks' duration in the winter of 1886-87 killed to the ground all the orange trees in Calcasieu and Cameron parishes, yet in both parish; hundreds of trees which have since grown up from the roots of those frozen trees are now in bloom, and some of them bore a few oranges last year, though many of them have received scarcely any cultivation. In 1868 I was informed by a Galveston dealer that Galveston fruit dealers always paid much more for Calcasieu than for other oranges, because they were larger, more juicy, of better flavor, and better endured transportation and exposure in open market. At that time Calcasieu embraced all of what is now Cameron parish lying between the Sabine and Mermentau Rivers. In the winter of 1866 1 gathered from trees in Lake Charles, and at the Kayough place, a few miles below Lake Charles, one hundred acres, nearly all of which averaged fifteen inches in circumference. It is a popular idea, and Mr. Welsh holds it, that an orange grove should be near a wide river, lake, or other large body of water. Without expressing an opinion on that point, I know that orange and other fruit trees on the open prairie, from a half to three-quarters of a mile east of the eastern shore of Lake Charles, were always less affected by extremely cold weather than similar trees them on the banks of Lake Charles and of the Calcasieu River; and I have little doubt that, barring very hard freezes, which rarely occur in this latitude, the orange may be cultivated on all the highlands of the Calcasieu and Cameron prairies, and on all their marsh lands when reclaimed, as they will be, as far as from to Illinois thirty to thirty-five miles in an air line north of the Gulf of Mexico. The early completion of the Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Railroad, now assured, will open up Northern markets for Calcasieu and Cameron oranges, saw accessible in two and three days from shipment, and will result in dotting the Calcasieu and Cameron prairies with orange groves. Purchasers, as generally heretofore, will buy the crop on the trees, months before it ripens, and the grove owners will save the time, labor and expense of gathering and marketing the fruit. I am confident the next ten years will witness wonderful progress in orange culture in Calcasieu and Cameron parishes. The cultivation of fruits in Cameron is one of its great industries, and perhaps always will be. When the marsh lands are reclaimed, then it will become also a great rice-growing region. But it will always be a fruit country. When its marsh lands are reclaimed, and brought into market; when their great fertility and healthfulness are made known to the outside world, then will the tide of immigration be turned hitherward, and the country become thickly settled. Pertinent to these predictions, a great writer, with vast and varied experience in settling the Western country-and the same applies as well to Southwest Louisiana--has said: Whenever a new country comes into notice and available occupancy, there is always a rush of people made up of three classes. Among the first to start are many uneasy, visionary people, Micawber's progeny, who instead of sitting still waiting for something to turn up, keep on the move, expecting to find, somewhere, something already turned up, fully fitted for their easy and comfortable occupancy. These people take one superficial look at any new country and turn right about homeward, or start for some other just heard-of region, to be in like manner disappointed. There were many thousands of such among the early visitors to the rich but then undeveloped prairies of Illinois and Iowa. These are the croakers who return from every new country and ventilate their own inefficiency and lack of pluck in the newspapers. A second numerous class is made up of hard working, industrious persons, anxious to improve their own condition and that of their families; but from lack of economy, skill or judgment, they will be "ne'er-do-wells" anywhere. They stay here awhile, there awhile, but keep on the move, seldom remaining long in any place. There were many of these among the first comers in all the best States west of the Alleghenies. Large numbers of both the above classes were waiting on the borders of Oklahoma, and in many other newly developing regions when about to be opened. The whole Western country was overrun by them when the free Homestead Act went into operation; they are mostly worthy people the trouble is in their inherited make-up. The genuine pioneers forming the third class have not only ambition, enterprise, skill and economy, but faith and persistence. When such people came to Illinois, for example, and found blank prairies, a tough sod to be broken, fuel scarce, supply points only to be reached by days of pilgrimage over soft roads, no markets for their products, everything forbidding except what faith saw underground, they buckled down to work, undismayed by any difficulties or deprivations, resolved to "turn up something" wherever they chanced to locate. These or their children are largely the present occupants of the grand farming regions of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. They are thickly scattered in all the States and Territories westward to the Pacific. There is plenty of room yet for scores of millions of this class, despite all the evil reports constantly coming back from the class of pioneers first above described. There are on this continent no natural Arcadias--no places were the pioneer will not find many sacrifices and deprivations, and much hard work to be done. There are few places where persistent effort and stick-to-it-iveness will not succeed, if combined with a reasonable amount of what may be called "calculation." There is no place where the earlier settlers will not meet with many disappointments in the first years, with bad seasons, droughts and prolonged storms, poor crops alternating with the good ones, or with swarms of destructive insects, etc. was so in Eastern Kansas and Nebraska, now fertile garden farms; it was so even in Illinois and Iowa; it was so, and still is partly so, in Minnesota and Dakota, in Montana, and in all the region westward. No places will ever be found perfect. But those who stick their stakes deeply down almost anywhere, except in actual natural deserts, and keep at it, will in the end be victors. The completion of the Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Railroad will, doubtless, have a great effect on the development of Cameron parish. Mr. J. B. Watkins, who is building the road, has bought, it is said, most of the marsh lands, and when his road is completed, will then turn his attention to developing and bringing them into market. Mr. Watkins is doing a great work for this particular section of the country, as well as for all Southwest Louisiana, and should be supported and assisted by the people in his work. Upon the advantages, climate and capabilities of this wonderful country, an enthusiast on the subject thus sings its praises. "Where have we the most even climate and the cheapest protection against extremes? I answer, confidently, the coast line of the Gulf of Mexico. One season merges almost imperceptibly into another; extreme heat and cold, about seventy degrees, and climatic changes very gradual, about twenty degrees, covers the changes of the twenty-four hours, and five to ten degrees from month to month. Corn can be planted from February to July, and gardens made from January to November, and fuel and lumber at nominal prices; wool and cotton at lowest price, stock of all kinds roam over the prairies at will, and are never fed by the hand of man. "The cereals here require the same labor as further north, but at a more seasonable time. Fall sown crops mature and are harvested in May, while sugar, cotton, hay and rice are harvested from August to January. There is little to do during the heated term. And for fruits, delicious fruits, luxuries of life, necessities of health, solace of our leisure hours. Where are our orchards today? Follow the coast line and you will see nearly all. The peach king of the world, Parnell, of Georgia; and for pears, Thomasville, of same State; for tropical and semi-tropical fruits the coast line alone, while figs, apricots, prunes, olives, grapes, pomegranates and berries are in abundance. Go to the coast for fish, oysters, game, sugar, rice, cotton, corn, tobacco and textile fabrics. Walnuts, pecans, almonds and most nut bearing trees. It's eminently a tree bearing country--a prairie only by accident." The professions in Cameron parish have but a brief history. Physicians do not like to stay long in the parish; the people are too much scattered, and it requires too much riding, and that over a marsh country to visit them. Besides, the population is sparse and the climate extremely healthy, or as a gentleman expressed it--"The country is distressingly healthful." At present there are two practising physicians in the parish, and only one lawyer. The religious and educational facilities of the parish are excellent. There are four churches. One Catholic church; the Methodist Episcopal church, South, has buildings, and the Baptist church has one. These are all supplied with ministers and regular services are held in them. There are ten public school houses in the parish, and schools are taught for the usual length of time each year. There are several schools carried on in private buildings each year, in addition to the public schools.--Perrin. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Chapter VI, pp.169-179. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.