Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/La Borde

LA BORDE, French traveller. He was em- ployed in the Jesuit missions in the Antilles to- ward the middle of the 17th century, and was probably a member of the Jesuit order. Nothing is known of his life. He wrote "Relation de l'origine, mceurs, coutumes, guerres et voyages des Caraibes, sauvages des iles Antilles de l'Amerique " (Paris, 1674 ; German translation, Nuremberg, 1783). The account which this author gives of the man- ners and customs of the Caribs is among the most interesting in existence.