Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Urfe, Louis Edouard d'

URFE, Louis Edouard d', West Indian mis- sionary, b. in Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, in 1699 ; d. in Leghorn in 1762. He was educated in the col- lege of the Jesuits at Bordeaux, entered that order in 1727, and was sent in the following year to Guadeloupe, where he resided several years and had charge of the parish of Capesterre. In 1742 he went to Cayenne, founded several missions among the Galibi Indians, explored Guiana and the basin of the Orinoco, and in 1760 became visitor of his order. He died at Leghorn during a voyage for the purpose of conferring with the gen- eral of the Jesuits. Urfe's works include " Gram- maire Galibi " (Paris, 1755) : " Dictionnaire Galibi " (1757) ; and " Histoire des etablissements de la foi fondes dans la Guiane ou Nouvelle France meri- dionale"(1762).