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JOURNEYS OF
of ground till we could hear of the boat,
which was to follow us, or of our ships.
But our provisions beginning to fall short,
and none of our ships appearing, being, besides,
apprehensive of some unlucky accident
occasioned by the disagreement between
M. de la Salle and M. de Beaujeu,
the chief of our company came together to
know what resolution we should take. It
was agreed that we should spare our provisions,
to endeavor to go on to some place
where we might find bullocks; but it was
requisite to cross the river, and we knew
not how, because we were too many of us,
and therefore it was decreed to set some
carpenters there were among us at work
to build a little boat, which took them up
the I Ith and I2th of February.
The I3th we were put out of our pain by
two vessels we discovered at sea, which we
knew to be the Joly and La Belle, to whorm
we made our signals with smoke. They
came not in then, because it was late, but
the next day, being the I4th, in the morning,
the boat, with the Sieur Barbier and
the pilot of the bark La Belle, came up, and
both sounded the mouth of the river.
They sounded on the bar from ten to
twelve feet water, and within it from five to
six fathom, the breadth of the river being
40
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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/m1/47/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .