The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 105 of 330
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LA SALLE
bark or greater vessel may pass from Fort
Frontenac until you come within two
leagues of the fail, for which two leagues
the people are obliged to carry their goods
overland; but the way is very good, and the
trees are but few, and they chiefly firs and
oaks. Were it not for this vast cataract,
which interrupts navigation, we might sail
with barks or greater vessels above four
hundred and fifty leagues further.
On the 7th of August we went on board,
being in all thirty-four men, and sailed from
the mouth of the Lake Erie, and on the I Ith
entered a strait thirty leagues long and one
broad, except in the middle, which makes
the lake of St. Clair. On the 23d we got
into the Lake Huron. The 26th we had so
violent a storm that we brought down our
yards and topmasts and let the ship drive
at the mercy of the wind, knowing no place
to run into to shelter ourselves. M. de la
Salle, notwithstanding he was a courageous
man, began to fear, and told us we were
undone; whereupon everybody fell on his
knees to say his prayers and prepare himself
for death, except our pilot, whom we
could never oblige to pray; and he did nothing
all that while but curse and swear
against M. de la Salle, who had brought
him thither to make him perish in a nasty
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/105/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.