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The various Indian villages, or cantonments, are all indicated, with the number of warriors belonging to each, the aggregate corresponding very nearly with that of La Salle's report to the minister. A few others, probably Abenakis, lived in the fort. The Fort St. The Shawanoe camp, or village, is placed on the south side of the river, behind the fort.
Charlevoix, who knew him long after, says that he was "un fort honnete homme, et le seul de la troupe de M. de la Salle, sur qui ce celebre voyageur put compter." Tonty derived his information from the survivors of La Salle's party.
On the twenty-second of July, two voyageurs, Messier and Laurent, came to him with a letter from Tonty; who wrote that soon after La Salle's departure, nearly all the men had deserted, after destroying Fort Crevecoeur, plundering the magazine, and throwing into the river all the arms, goods, and stores which they could not carry off.
Le Gros, a man of character and intelligence, suffered more and more from the bite of the snake received in the marsh oil Easter Day. The injured limb was amputated, and he died, La Salle's brother, the priest, lay ill; and several others among the chief persons of the colony were in the same condition. Meanwhile, the work was urged on.
But while in the act of erecting Fort Louis, near the sources of the river Illinois, most of the garrison at Crevecoeur mutinied and deserted, after pillaging the stores of provision and ammunition there laid up. At this crisis of La Salle's affairs armed bands of the Iroquois suddenly appeared in the Illinois territory and produced a panic among its timid inhabitants.
He lifted his hand and made the sign of the cross towards that spot on the horizon whither Iberville had gone. "He will be a great man some day," he added to himself "a great man. There will be empires here, and when histories are written Pierre's shall be a name beside Frontenac's and La Salle's." All the human affection of the good abbe's life centred upon Iberville.
La Salle's dream of a New France in the heart of America was blotted out in his tragic death upon the banks of the River Trinity . Yet his mantle was to fall in turn upon the square shoulders of Le Moyne d'Iberville and of his brother the good, the constant Bienville, who after countless and arduous struggles laid firm the foundations of New Orleans.
It was inevitable, therefore, that a young man of La Salle's adventurous temperament and commercial ancestry should soon forsake the irksome drudgery of clearing land for the more exciting and apparently more profitable pursuit of forest trade. That was what happened.
Apparently, this did not satisfy him; for there is before me the copy of a petition, written about 1717, in which he asks, jointly with one of his nephews, to be given possession of the seignorial property held by La Salle in America. The petition was refused. Young Cavelier, La Salle's nephew, died some years after, an officer in a regiment.
So slowly did events move then, and so powerless was man, an atom in the wilderness, that the great-hearted Italian, weeping aloud in rage and grief, realized that La Salle's bones had been bleaching a year and a half before the news of his death reached his lieutenant. It was not known that La Salle received burial. The wretches who assassinated him threw him into some brush.
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