The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 253 of 330
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LA SALLE
beauty and fertility of the fields, the incredible
quantity of game of every kind and the
numerous tribes he had met on the way.10
The Almighty was preparing him a still
more sensible trial than the preceding in the
loss of his only remaining vessel, in which
he hoped to coast along and then pass to St.
Domingo, to send news to France and obtain
new succor. This sad accident happened
from want of precaution on the part
of the pilot. All the goods were lost irrecoverably;
the vessel struck on the shore,
the sailors were drowned; the Sieur de
Chefdeville, the captain, and four others,
with difficulty, escaped in a canoe which
they found almost miraculously on the
shore. They lost thirty-six barrels of flour,
a quantity of wine, the trunks, clothes, linen,
equipage and most of the tools. We leave
the reader to imagine the grief and affliction
felt by the Sieur de la Salle at an accident
which completely ruined all his measures.
His great courage even could not
have borne him up had not God aided his
virtue by the help of extraordinary grace.
All these measures being thus disconcerted
and his affairs brought to extremes,
he resolved to try to reach Canada by land.
1 For Tonty's movements during this same period
cf. Vol. I., page 34.
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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/m1/253/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.