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JOURNEYS OF
At length we set out the 2Ist of March
from Fort Louis. The Sieur Boisrondet,
who was desirous to return to France,
joined us; we embarked on the river, which
was then become navigable, and before we
had advanced five leagues met with a rapid
stream, which obliged us to go ashore, and
then again into the water, to draw along
our canoe. I had the misfortune to hurt
one of my feet against a rock that lay under
water, which troubled me very much for a
long.time, and we being under a necessity
of going often into the water, I suffered extremely,
and more than I had done since our
departure from the Gulf of Mexico.
We arrived at Chicagon on the 29th of
March, and our first care was to seek what
we had concealed at our former voyage,
having, as was there said, buried our luggage
and provisions. We found it had been
opened and some furs and linen taken away,
almost all of which belonged to me. This
had been done by a Frenchman whom M.
Tonty had sent from the fort during the
winter season to know whether there were
any canoes at Chicagon, and whom he had
directed to see whether anybody had meddled
with what we had concealed, and he
made use of that advice to rob us.
The bad weather obliged us to stay in
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6103/m1/233/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .