The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 244 of 330
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JOURNEYS OF
in a manner bars the entrance, there are
twelve or fifteen feet of water at low tide.
The Sieur de la Salle having ordered the
captain of the store-ship not to enter without
the pilot of the frigate, in whom he put
all confidence, to unload his cannon and
water into the boats to lighten his cargo,
and lastly, to follow exactly the channel
staked out; none of his orders were executed,
and the faithless man, in spite of the
advice given him by a sailor who was at the
maintop to keep off, drove his vessel on the
shoals, where he touched and stranded, so
that it was impossible to get off.5
La Salle was on the seashore when he
saw this deplorable maneuver, and was embarking
to remedy it, when he saw a hundred
or a hundred and twenty Indians come.
He had to put all under arms. The roll of
the drum put the savages to flight; he followed
them, presented the calumet of peace,
and conducted them to their camp, regaled
them, and even made them presents; and
the Sieur de la Salle gained them so that
an alliance was made with them. They
brought meat to the camp the following
days; he bought some of their canoes, and
there was every reason to expect much from
this necessary union.
[ Cf. MARGRY II., 556, 599.]
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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/m1/244/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.