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DEPARTURE OF BEAUJEU.
in all some sixty barrels. Joutel is so cruel as to charge St.
Aigron, the captain of the Aimable, with sinking his boat on
purpose; but this can not be believed. Some blankets from
the wreck having been driven ashore, they were picked up and
appropriated by the Indians. La Salle, wishing to obtain ca-
noes in exchange for these goods, sent Lieutenant Da Hamel
of the Joli, who had volunteered for that purpose, to negotiate
the affair. But D Hamel, unacquainted with the Indian char-
acter, or the mode of gaining their good will, rushed into their
village with his armed men, which so frightened them, that
they could not regard them as friends. Being unable to make
himself understood, he seized two of their canoes and a parcel
of skins, and returned. The Indians, in revenge for this act
of hostility, pursued them, and overtook them where they had
landed and gone to sleep, and poured into their camp a shower
of arrows, which killed Ory ands Desloges, two particular friends.
of La Salle, and wounded two others,,one of whom' was his
nephew.*
The failure to fid the mouth of the Mississippi; the loss of
the Aimable, and the greater part of the stores with, which she
was freighted ; and the death of Ory and Desloges -the first
European blood shed in Texas-all coinbined to dishearten
the colonists. In addition to this, the few provisions saved
were nearly consumed; which, notwithstanding the prairies
abounded with buffalo and deer, and the waters with wild-fowls
and fishes, alarmed the faint-hearted, and caused murmuring
and discontent. And, to add to the loneliness of their situa-
tion, and cut them off from the civilized world, Beaujeu sailed
on the 12th of March for France, taking with him the captain
and crew of the Aimable. When he left, he carried away all
the cannon-balls, thus leaving La Salle with eight cannons, and
* Bossu, vol. i., p. 76. Life of La Salle, p. 134.21
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Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856. History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1, book, 1855; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2385/m1/29/: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.