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JOURNEYS OF
a Frenchman come out, with a company of
Indians, who fired a volley of several pieces
to salute us. Then the Frenchman drew
near and desired us to come ashore, which
we did, leaving only one in the canoe to take
care of our baggage, for the Illinois are very
sharp at carrying off anything they can lay
their hands on, and consequently nothing
near so honest as the nations we had passed
through.
CHAPTER IX.
[FROM THE ILLINOIS TO FRANCE.]
WE all walked together towards the fort,
and found three Frenchmen coming to meet
us, and among them a clerk who had belonged
to the late M. de la Salle. They immediately
asked us where M. de la Salle
was; we told them he had brought us part
of the way and left us at a place about forty
leagues beyond the Cenis, and that he was
then in good health. All that was true
enough, for M. Cavelier and I, who were
the persons that then spoke, were not present
at M. de la Salle's death; he was in good
health when he left us, and I have told the
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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/m1/219/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .