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A62935	An Account of Monsieur de la Salle's last expedition and discoveries in North America presented to the French king, and published by the Chevalier Tonti, Governour of Fort St. Louis, in the province of Illinois ; made English from the Paris original ; also the adventures of the Sieur de Montauban, captain of the French buccaneers on the coast of Guinea, in the year 1695.; Dernieres decouvertes dan l'Amerique septentrionale de M. de La Sale. English.	Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704.; Montauban, Sieur de, ca. 1650-1700. Relation du voyage du Sieur de Montauban, capitaine des flibustiers, en Guinée en l'année 1695. English.	1698 (1698)	Wing T1890; ESTC R10138	104,515	260

Weak and Credulous People who believed without any further Inquiry whatever our Villains had told them They broke off immediately their Society with us and lookt upon us but chiefly upon our Chief as their greatest Enemies and resolved upon our Ruin M. La Salle suspected the cause of their Mistrust and was sensible of the danger he was exposed to but did not know from whence it came His great Courage was not however cast down and trusting to his good Conscience went boldly to the Chief of the Savages and told them That he observed such an alteration in their proceedings with him that he could not but be concerned at it and therefore desir'd them to tell him the Motives of their Mistrust and to consider whether they were well grounded or only an Artifice of their common Enemies who were jealous of the good Correspondence that was between them The Illinois could not refuse that reasonable Demand And how they were discovered and therefore told him that his own Men had discover'd his Designs against them in conjunction with the Iroquois M. La Salle tho' surpriz'd at the Perfidiousness and Treachery of his Men made use of such convincing Arguments to prove the Malice of his Accusers and his Innocence together with the impossibility of his League with a Cruel Nation who is bound by no Law nor Sense of Humanity that the Illinois were perswaded of the sincerity of his Intentions and of the Motive of his Enemies and therefore we became Friends again The arrival of Mausolea The Calm was hardly setled but that it was disturbed by a more dangerous storm than the former by the arrival of one Mausolea a secret Emissary of the Iroquois of the neighbouring Nation of the Mascontans a Cunning Seditious and Eloquent Man This pretended Embassador arriv'd in the Camp of the Illinois during the Night and having gain'd the chief of them the Council was called where Mausolea having displayed his Presents acquainted the Assembly with the motives of his Embassie He told them that it was not the Interest alone of his Nation and theirs but rather of all the Americans His Discourse which had occasion'd his Deputation seeing that they were informed that the French were come with a Design to subdue the whole Country of the Northern America to the Gulph of Mexico that to succeed therein we pretended not only to make use of our own Forces but likewise of the Americans themselves that in order thereunto we had contracted a strict Alliance with the Iroquois their common Enemies That the Fort we had erected on their River was the beginning of our Tyranny and a place of Refuge 'till the arrival of our Confederates That if they expected any longer and gave us time to join together their Miseries should be past remedy and therefore advised them to prevent us and destroy us whilst it was in their power The crafty Contrivance of the Illinois These Calumnies of Mausolea made a great impression on the credulous Illinois and so much the more because his Accusation agreed exactly with what our own Men had told them But doubtless the Reader expects an Account of the Reason that put the Iroquois upon this Villainous trick and if we remember what has been already said of the Character of that barbarous Nation 't is easie to discern that they were afraid that the Illinois would grow too powerful by their Commerce with us and be enabled by the use of Fire-arms to make head against them and therefore they made use of this Mausolea to Accuse us as he did in order to incense the Illinois against our Nation and prevent thereby our Settlement in the Country M. La Salle who relyed upon the Faith of the late Reconciliation knew nothing of this new Storm and having no other Thoughts than to settle his Union with the Illinois rose very early and went directly to the Camp of the Illinois with his best Friend where he was mightily surpriz'd to see a general Uproar and that no body would speak with him The Conjuncture was very nice and therefore M. la Salle was in a great perplexity and did not know what to do Some were of Opinion to retire into the Fort 'till this new Treachery was discover'd but he would not hearken to this Advice lest his Retreat should confirm the Accusation of his Enemies and took a Resolution more worthy of himself tho' more dangerous He went up boldly to the Assembly of the Chief of the Nation and expressed himself as well as he could in their own Language and much to this effect Friends Mr. la Salle's Speech to the Illinois I Cannot but wonder at your Inconstancy we parted very good Friends last Night and this Morning I find you almost in Arms against me no body speaks to me and every body threatens me What new Crime have I committed or rather by what new Impostor have you been incensed against me I surrender my self and therefore if ever I have acted against the Interest of your Nation you may do what you please I am at your mercy The Savages considering his Speech and his Countenance were almost perswaded with his Innocence and told him the Subject of the Embassie of Mausolea who was at that time present whereupon M. la Salle directed his Speech to him in this manner You accuse me of an Alliance with a Barbarous and Treacherous Nation but where are your Proofs If you have any speak out but if you have none do you think the Illinois will believe your malicious Contrivances Mausolea had certainly no Proof but endeavoured to make out his Accusation by some Circumstances as his former Commerce with the Iroquois the Fort he had built upon the River of the Illinois and his return to Fort Frontenac concluding that though these were no direct Proofs yet they were substantial Indications of his Design It was very easie for M. la Salle to answer his Arguments and to shew that the Iroquois being jealous of their good Correspondence and sensible that their Union would enable them to make head against them had hir'd this Emissary to create these Divisions He advised them to consider every thing and how the Iroquois had subdued by their Artifices the Miamis the Quiaquons and the Mascoutans who sent this pretended Advice and therefore exhorted to weigh every thing and enquire into the Embassie for he suspected Mausolea was sent by the Iroquois and not by his own Nation assuring them in the mean time that he was come to protect them against the Iroquois and their other Enemies The effect of his Discourse These Reasons being accompanied with the assuredness which a good Cause inspires had all the expected effect insomuch that Mausolea himself out of Fear or remorse of Conscience confess'd that the Iroquois had spread those Reports among the Mascontans on purpose to excite a general Insurrection against us and owned that the safety of the Illinois

it and caught hold of a piece of Mast that say near me Then I cry'd out to some of my Men whom I saw swimming round about me and exhorted 'em to be of good Courage hoping that we might save our selves if we could find some of our Shallops But that which troubl'd me more than my own Misfortune was the sight of two half Bodies in which there was still some Remainder of Life floating on the Water and leaving the Place where they sunk stain'd with their Blood as also to see round about me an infinite number of Limbs and Members torn from Bodies and the greatest part of 'em spitted on the Sprinters of Wood. In the mean while one of my Men having espy'd an entire Shallop amidst the Wreck that swam on the Water told me that 't was requisite to endeavour to stop a Hole therein and to take out a small Boat which was enclos'd within it Whereupon about Fifteen or Sixteen of us who had escaped made up to the Shallop every one on his piece of Wood and took so great Care to clear our Boat that at last our Attempt prov'd successful Thus we all got into it and not long after sav'd our Master-Gunner who had one of his Legs shot off in the Fight We took up three or four Ours or pieces of Planks that serv'd us for the same use Then we sought for somewhat to make a Sail and a small Mast and after having furnish'd our selves in the best manner we possibly could we entirely rely'd upon the Divine Providence which alone was able to secure our Life and Safety As soon us I had ceas'd from Work I found my self all over besmear'd with Blood that run our of a Wound I receiv'd in my Head and which was apparently occasion'd by my being blown up There fore Lint was made for me with my Handkerchief and a Band with a piece of my Shirt having first wash'd the Wound with Urine The same thing was done for others of our Company who were wounded whilst our Shallop sail'd without any sight of Land neither did we know whither we were steering but that which added to our Affliction was that we had no Provisions and had already pass'd three Days without either eating or drinking insomuch that one of our Men quite worn out with Hunger and Thirst drank so great a quantity of salt Water that he burst The greatest part of our Company vomited continually whether they receiv'd any Injury from the Water they swallow'd upon their falling into the Sea as if befel me or from that which they were nocessitated to drink As for my self I was a long time indispos'd so that my Body swell'd extremely and a great number of small Pimples broke forth throughout my Body But I am apt to believe the cure of my Dropsie and the Health that I have in some measure recover'd and which is by degrees more and more restor'd to be chiefly owing to a Quartan-Ague that seiz'd on me a little while after that Misfortune I do not reckon up the other Inconveniences that were occasion'd by so desperate a Blow it being impossible that they should not befal any Person under my Circumstances The Fire of the Powder burnt all my Hair my whole Face and all over one side of my Body and I became sensible of that Accident which commonly happens among the Cannoniers who serve at Sea that is to say I voided Blood thro' the Nose Ears and Mouth I know not whether the Blast of the Gun-powder produces that Effect by excessively dilating the Vessels that contain the Blood in our Body so that the ends of the Branches let it out or whether the great Noise and Commotion that it causes in those Organs opliges the Veins to open But let the case be how it will 't is of no great moment since this is not a proper Place to hold a Consultation of Physitians as long as we are ready to be starv'd with Hunger nor to enquire what became of all the English Men when we had much ado to save our selves We continu'd our Course by rowing up the Current because we knew it came from the Port of Cabinda but forasmuch as the Wind was contrary we could never reach it and we were forc'd to content our selves only to make Cape Corsa if it were possible which is distan Twelve Leagues from that of Cathersna where we were not able to land by reason of a Bar which renders the Coast inaccessible That was our Design but Hunger hinder'd us from putting it in Execution and 't was requisite to overcome the Obstacles that Nature laid in our way by getting a-shoar notwithstanding the Ba● which we did at last with a great deal of Difficulty hoping to meet with some Negro who might supply us with Victuals Therefore one of our Company being detach ' to seek for somewhat to appease our Hunger had the good Luck to find in a Pond that the Sea had form'd hard by good store of Oysters sticking to certain Branches and immediately ran to give us notice of this Discovery Whereupon we all got up the Channel to that Pond and being arriv'd there eat Oysters with a very good Appetite opening 'em with Knives we had in our Pockets which we lent one to another very charitably After having spent two Daye there I divided my Men into three small Bands and sent 'em to seek for Provisions and Habitations farther up the Land with Orders to return to the Shallop in the Evening I also went forth with the rest but we did not meet with an Habitation nor any Footsteps of Men. We only saw many Herds of Buffies of the bigness of an Ox which fled from us as we drew near 'em Thus the whole Day being spent without finding any thing we all came back to the Shallop to feed upon Oysters and took a Resolution to depart from that Place the next day to go to Cape Corsa to the Leeward of which is situated a large Port where the Vessels that come from Cruising take in fresh Water and Wood. The Negro's who inhabit the Country as soon as they are inform'd of the Arrival of any Vessels by the discharging of their Cannon instantly repair to the Shoar bringing Provisions to be exchang'd for Brandy Knives Hatchets and other Toys They are oblig'd to take up their Habitation far from the Sea by reason that all those Coasts are surrounded with Marshy Grounds We were no sooner arriv'd at that Cape but we heard a great noise made by the Negro's who came to self Wood to the Ships that lay at Anchor in the Port and I made enquiry among 'em endeavouring to find out some of my Acquaintance For since they had very frequently supply'd me with necessary Refreshments Wood and other Commodities in my other Voyages I hop'd to meet with some Persons that had Knowledge of me but altho I knew many of 'em nevertheless 't was almost impossible to perswade 'em that I was