who were to bear him Company, easily prevail'd with me to make one of the Number, and I was admitted as a voluntier.
July 1684 Our Rendezvous was appointed at Rochel, where we were to imbark. Messieurs Cavelier, the one Brother, the other Nephew to Monsieur de la Sale,[1] Messieurs Chedeville, Planteroze, Thibault, Ory, some others and I, repair'd thither in July 1684.
Departure from Rochel. Monsieur de la Sale having provided all Things necessary for his Voyage, surmounted all the Difficulties laid in his Way by several ill-minded Persons, and receiv'd his Orders from Monsieur Arnoult, the Intendant at Rochel, pursuant to those he had receiv'd from the King, we sail'd on the 24th of July, 1684,[2] being twenty four Vessels, four of them for our Voyage, and the others for the Islands and Canada.
Persons that went. The four Vessels appointed for Monsieur de la Sale's Enterprize, had on Board about two hundred and eighty persons, including the Crews; of which Number there were one hundred Soldiers, with their Officers, one Talon, with his Canada Family, about thirty Voluntiers, some young Women, and the rest hired People and Workmen of all Sorts, requisite for making of a Settlement.
Ships. The first of the four Vessels was a Man of War, call'd le Joly, of about thirty six or forty Guns, commanded by Monsieur de Beaujeu, on which Monsieur de la Sale, his Brother the Priest, two Recolet Fryars, Messieurs Dainmaville and Chedeville, Priests, and I imbark'd. The next was a little Frigate, carrying six Guns, which the King had given to Monsieur de la Sale, commanded by two Masters; a Flyboat of about three hundred Tuns Burden, belonging to the Sieur Massiot, Merchant at Rochel, commanded by
- ↑ The Fr. reads thus, "l'um frere & les autres neveus de . . ."—the one a brother of M. de La Salle, the others his nephews. There evidently were two nephews, named Cavalier—the name of La Salle's family; although in this journal the elder nephew is generally styled M. Moranget.
- ↑ Cavalier gives the date as 23d or 24th July.
