The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 228
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The second question is answered also in B6ranger's account,
from which we translate the following:
Mr. de la Harpe went ashore with an ensign, Mr.
de Bellisle, who served as interpreter. It will not be
out of place to say something of this unfortunate
gentleman. He was one of the five who embarked on
the "Marechal d'Estre" which had the bad luck to
pass Louisiana and . . . sailing a long time up and
down the west coast . . . they underwent the horrors
of shipwreck in running their ship ashore several
times . . . the last time this happened to them was
at the entrance of this Bay on the sandbanks of which
I have just spoke. These unfortunate officers .
believed nevertheless that it was not far from
Louisiana and decided to undertake the voyage by
land... .."
B6ranger gives in his memorandum a glowing account of de
Bellisle's adventures and mentions also the island45 where de
Bellisle met the Indians. This account differs again from the
ones by Le Page du Pratz, Bossu, or de Bellisle himself, but
there can be no doubt that de Bellisle was in the very Bay
where he landed in 1719. The following passages of B6ranger's
account, which the author translated, show this clearly:
When this gentleman recovered [from his hardship
apparently] he embarked with us to remain with Mr.
de la Harpe and to serve him as a second and in-
terpreter. . . . They went four leagues into the Bay
when they met the Indians who were much surprised
to meet their slave well equipped. . . . He [de Bellisle]
showed us several [Indians] who had treated him
badly."
When de la Harpe tried to obtain permission from the Indians
to establish a post on their territory, the Indians replied that
he should go away and that if he remained, they would think
that the French had come to "revenge the bad treatment
inflicted on de Bellisle."" Also the letter which de Bellisle
addressed to the Company of the Indies, claiming the dis-
Bancroft, History of the North Mexican States and Texas (San Francisco:
The History Company, 1886), II, 619 if.
44Cf. a MS. copy in the Edward E. Ayer Collection (MS. No. 293, 71-76).
" This "island" is drawn on Devin's map, reproduced above.
'0Cf. a MS. copy of Beranger's account in the Edward E. Ayer Collec-
tion, "Mdmoires de la Louisiane" (MS. No. 293), 79.
47Ibid., 80.228
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