prov'd very unsuccessful, especially the latter; because we were not yet well vers'd in them, and Monsieur de la Sale had taken our Huntsman along with him; but at length, Necessity made us more expert. We kill'd Beeves, some of which I caus'd to be dry'd, and they were a considerable Help to subsist us.
Hunter dies with Cold. Some Days after, the Canoe Monsieur de la Sale had promis'd me, arrived with three Soldiers, who brought us the News of the Loss of the Huntsman Monsieur de la Sale had taken along with him, and who had been found dead with Cold in a Ditch, where he had lain down to rest after hunting, which troubled us all very much. They also inform'd us, that Monsr. de la Sale advancing towards some Dwellings the Natives had abandon'd, after a small Resistance, some of whom had been wounded as they fled, they had taken and brought a Girl and a Woman, who was shot thro' the Thigh, of which she dy'd.[1]
Dec. 1685 The Canoe was a great Help to us to carry what we kill'd, which being brought to our Habitation, found Employment for all Persons, some to flea, others to cut up, and others to dry it. At other Times, I set some of our men to throw up a Trench about our Habitation.
Jan. 1686
Duhaut returns from Mr. de la Sale.
Thus we spent our Time, till about the Middle of January,
1686, when being all, one Evening, in our Mansion,
the Sentinel came in to acquaint me, that he heard a Voice
towards the River; some men ran thither immediately, and
found a Man in a Canoe, crying, Dominick, which was the
Name of young Duhaut, who was with us. The Sight of
that made me apprehensive lest some Disaster was befallen
Monsr. de la Sale. I drew near, and perceiv'd it was
Duhaut the Elder, that was return'd.
I ask'd, him whether he had any Letters from Monsieur
- ↑ The construction of this sentence, leaves us somewhat in doubt, as to whether the girl and the woman were not one and the same person. In the Fr. it reads "une fille, une femme blessée à la cuisse d'un coup de fusil, dont elle mourut—a girl, a woman wounded in the thigh by a gun-shot, who died of the wound." C. C. edit.
