Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7

After that, _Hiens_ and his Companions withdrew to their own Cottage, and we resolv’d not to put off our Departure any longer. Accordingly, we made ready our Horses, which much...

The Second, we made ready to be going. The _Indian_ given by the first Village for our Guide, would not go any farther. A Man, said to be an Hermaphrodite, offer’d to supply his...

The 18th, the Wind being fresh, we made ready, and sail’d about Ten in the Morning, standing _North_ and _N._ and by _W._ and held our Course till Noon; the Point of Cape St. _A...

THE SECOND VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION (1678–1679) was virtually commenced, under the orders of La Salle (who was with Tonti) detained at Quebec by his own affairs, and the difficulti...

But in Regard, that Idleness often occasions Uneasiness and Impatience, I us’d all possible Means to keep them employ’d, in the most obliging Manner I could, setting some to cut...

Having lost the Notes I took at that time, and being forc’d to rely much upon Memory for what I now write, I shall not pretend to be any longer exact in the Dates, for fear of m...

The next Morning, Monsieur _de la Sale’s_ _Indian_, going about to find wild Goats, came to a Lake, which had a little Ice upon it, the Weather being cold, and Abundance of Fish...

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FOOTNOTES | | | | [1] “The Romance of the French and Spanish Explorers;” an article | | in _Harper’s Mag...

We fell into Discourse, I ask’d him for his Comrade, he told me, he durst not come, for Fear of Monsieur _de la Sale_. They were both Sailors, this Man, who was of _Britany_, wa...

The Pilot did as he was order’d, he sounded and observed the proper Places to come near several Coasts. At Night he and his Men being in all likelyhood tir’d, they thought fit t...

However the Murderers seiz’d upon all the Effects, without any Opposition, and then we began to talk of proceeding on our Journey. We decamp’d the 21st, with our _Indians_, and...

The Ninth, we put our Canoe into the Water, and pass’d the River in it, and incamp’d half a League from thence, on Account of the Grass, which our Horses stood in Need of to rec...

The Song was begun again, the Women mixing in the Chorus, and the Concert was heightned by great hollow Calabashes or Gourds, in which there were large Gravel Stones, to make a...

Most of the Inhabitants are _Mulattoes_, that is of a tawny dark Colour, who live most upon Chocolate and Sweetmeats, extraordinary sober, and eating little Flesh. The Men are h...

The “Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Nouvelle France, 1640,” Paris, 1641, gives the earliest indication of this voyage, and a summary description is given in the Relation o...

Amazing and incomprehensible, but at the same Time adorable Disposition of Divine Providence! We see here a vast Tract of the Earth, of an immense Extent, of a wonderful Soil fo...

The Clergy-man’s Recreation, shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gard’ning. By John Lawrence. A. M. Rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire, and sometime Fellow of Cl...

Shea promises an edition of a journal by Peñalossa, which will show the mercenary motives which inspired La Salle. Margry prints some documents concerning Peñalossa’s propositio...

THE INDEFATIGABLE HISTORIAN OF THE MISSIONS, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA, AND A MAN OF MODEST, PIOUS AND BLAMELESS LIFE THIS, THE FINAL...

Nevertheless, Adultery is not reckon’d any great Crime among them, and there are Women who make no Secret of having had to do with _French_ Men. Yet are they not sufficiently ad...

But, while thus engaged in the wilderness, matters in Canada were looming up adversely to his interests. His friend and patron, Count Frontenac, had been recalled to France, and...

“Memoir sent by the King to M. Denonville, explanatory of the French Possessions in North America,” in French’s Historical Collections, second series, pp. 123–142. This document...