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Extract of Bienville and Salmon
to the Minister
(May 20, 1733)
Bienville and Salmon in: Dunn, J. P.,
Mission to the Ouabache, p. 301.
p. 301.
D'un autre Cost le Sr. de Vincennes, qui commande aux Miamis, marque que les Sauvages etablis sur Ouabache ne sont pas plus tranquilles que les Illinois, qu'il n'est point en Etat de les Empecher d'avoir Commerce avec les Anglois, parce qu'il faudroit tous les faire reunis, et qu'il n'a point de Marchandise pour les y engager, que la Garrison d'ailleurs est trop foible pour contenir ces Nations.
[TRANSLATION. By the same letter Sieur St. Ange testifies that he is little assured of the fidelity of the Illinois, who often give him alarm, and make pretense of fear of our resentment for their past faults to have a pretext for agitation.
On another side Sieur de Vincennes, who commands at the home of the Miamis, states that the savages established on the Ouabache are not more tranquil than the Illinois; that he is not in condition to prevent them from trading with the English, because it would be necessary to bring them all together, and he has not the merchandise to invite them, in addition to which the garrison is too feeble to constrain this nation.]
No. 17.
Letter of M. Perier, 25 Jan., 1733, to the Minister:
Les Ouyatonons chez qui est Le Sr. de Vincennes se sont liez avec les Akansas pour faire La Guerre ensemble aux Chicachas, etc.
[TRANSLATION. The Ouiatanons, at whose home is Sieur de Vincennes, are united with the Arkansas to make war together on the Chickasaws, etc.]
No. 18.
Letter from M. de Vincennes,- presumably, as also with the one following, to the Governor, but with no address given. The spelling is as in the original.
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