THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Memoir on the Discovery of the
Mississippi and the Neighboring Nations
by M. de la Salle (1678-death) and
by the Sieur de Tonty (?-1691)
Tonty, Henri Sieur de, "Memoir sent in 1693, on the discovery of the Mississippi and the Neighboring Nations by M. de la Salle, from the year 1678 to the time of his death, and by the Sieur de Tonty to the year 1691." In: B. F. French, Historical Collections of Louisiana, pt. I, 1846, pp. 52-78.
p. 67.
The Miamis having seriously defeated the Illinois, it cost us 1,000 dollars to reconcile these two nations, which I did not accomplish without great trouble. In the autumn I embarked for Missilimakinac, in order to obtain news of M. de la Salle. I heard there that Monseigneur de Denonville had succeeded M. de la Barre; and by a letter which he did me the honor to write to me, he expressed his wish to see me, that we might take measures for a war against the Iroquois, and informed me that M. de la Salle was engaged in seeking the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico. Upon hearing this I resolved to go in search of him with a number of Canadians, and as soon as I should have found him, to return back to execute the orders of M. de Denonville.
I embarked, therefore, for the Illinois, on St. Andrew's Day (30th of October, 1685); but being stopped by the ice, I was obliged to leave my canoe and to proceed on by land. After going 120 leagues, I arrived at the Fort of Chicagou, where M. de la Durantaye commanded; and from thence I came to Fort St. Louis, where I arrived in the middle of January, 1685 (1686). I departed thence on the 16th February, with thirty Frenchmen, and five Illinois and Chawanons, for the sea, which I reached in Holy Week. . . .
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