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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

same place but the next Morning being Easter Monday A. D. 1685. we set forward on our Journey travelling by Land along the Banks of the River Mississipi On the Sixth day being arriv'd in the Country of the Qinipissa's The Quinipissa 's reconciled with the French their Commander in Chief came to meet us and having offer'd us the Calumet begg'd pardon for their ill usage of us during our last Voyage entreating us that we would vouchsafe to admit 'em into the number of our Allies However we answer'd their submissive Addresses very magisterially and having refresh'd our selves a little among 'em we pursu'd our Journey Four Leagues above we discover'd in the Country a certain Nation Ouma's a Savage People that had escap'd from us at our first Descent I mean that of the Ouma's who are the most valiant of all the Savages altho' it be true indeed that as soon as they saw us and our Arms they were struck with a kind of Astonishment accompanied with a panick Fear that quite curb'd their fierceness and oblig'd them to promise an entire Obedience to our Injunctions They offer'd us some new Refreshments and to serve us to the utmost of their power A strange Beast In those Territories we observ'd an extraordinary rare Animal that partakes of the nature of a Wolf and a Lion as having the Head and size of a large Wolf but the Tail and Claws of a Lion He devours all sorts of Beasts yet never sets upon Men He sometimes carries his Prey on his Back eats part of it and hides the rest under the Leaves of Trees but the other Animals have so great an Antipathy against this Beast which is call'd Michibichi that they never touch what he leaves Akanceas a Nation After the Oumas we met with the Akanceas Indeed all these Countries are so pleasant and so extremely enrich'd with the Productions of Nature that we could not sufficiently admire 'em The Trees in the Woods which are of an extraordinary heigth seem'd to be artificially planted in Rows The Soil brings forth good Grain with great variety of Fruit-Trees and the Fields are every where stor'd with all sorts of Game both for Hawk and Hound but there is also abundance of huge wild Cats which devour every thing that they can find Our French Men charm'd with the Beauty of this Climate desir'd leave of me to settle there and forasmuch as our Intention was to civilize the Savages and to render 'em sociable by our Conversation I readily consented to their Request Whereupon I made the Draught of a House for my self among the Akanceas and left Ten French Men of my Retinue with Four Savages to carry on the Building of it granting 'em a License to lodge there themselves and to cultivate as much Land as they could grub up and clear of Trees Insomuch that this small Colony was in Process of Time so extremely increas'd and improv'd that it serves as a Place of Rendez-vous to the French who travel into these Parts From thence I continu'd my Course along the River of the Islinois and after Three Days Journey arriv'd at St. Lewis's Fort on the Festival of St. John being less tir'd with the Fatigues of my Travels than perplexed about the Uncertainty of M. De La Salle's Destiny Forasmuch as I had not as yet paid my Respects to our new Governour after having pass'd some Days in refreshing my self I left the Islinois in the end of the Month of June and arriv'd at Montreal July 15. Then I went forthwith to salute the Gevernour War declar'd against the Iroquois and receiv'd Orders from him to cause the War against the Iroquois to be declar'd amongst our Allies and to summon 'em to appear at St. Lewis's Fort to carry on such an Expedition Having receiv'd this Commission I soon took leave of Monsieur D' Enonville and arriv'd in the Country of the Islinois Septemb. 4. from whence I speedily dispatch'd divers Couriers from all Parts to give notice to the Neighbouring Nations of our Design and to exhort 'em to appear betimes at the place of Rendez-vous Whereupon all the People met together in the end of the Month of March A. D. 1686. as well Islinois as Chianous and Niamis The whole Multitude consisted of about 400 Men to whom I joyn'd 60 French Men of my Company leaving 40 in the Fort under the Command of M. De Bellefontaine This small Army encamp'd within a quarter of a League of the Village where having caused the whole Body to stand to their Arms I declar'd to 'em the King's Pleasure and the Governour 's Orders exhorting 'em to signalize their Valour and to exert their utmost Force to repress the Insolence of the Iroquois our common Enemies This Speech was follow'd with the general Acclamations of all the People whereupon I immediately put my self at the Head of 'em and began to march to the Canal that joyns the two Lakes of the Suvrons and the Islinois In that Place stands a Fort that bears the Name of St. Joseph St. Joseph's Fort. and which serves to defend those small Seas Monsieur De la Durontay was the Commander of it to whom I sent one of our French-Men to give him notice of our Arrival Upon which Information he immediately commanded his Lieutenant to meet me with 30 Men and the next day he himself led up the like number Then we encamped on the Banks of that Streight and Provisions were brought to us thither from all Parts Two Days after M. de la Foret Governour of the Fort of Frontenac and M. de Lude Commander of that of the Miamis each at the Head of his Company march'd to joyn our Army All the Forces being thus assembled we held a Council of War to consult what Measures ought to be taken and it was determin'd to divide the Army into two Bodies one of which should be commanded by the Sieurs de la Durontay and de Lude to secure the Avenues of Missilimachinac and to defend the Coasts of the Lake Herie as far as Niagara where we design'd to erect a Fort which was already begun to be built to curb the Iroquois who always made some Opposition on that side And that M. de la Foret and my self should be Commanders of the other Body to invade the Enemies Country The management of Affairs being thus dispos'd of M. de la Durontay march'd along the Coasts of Missilimachinac and met with a considerable Party of the Enemies compos'd of above 500 Men as well English as Iroquois here it may be observ'd by the way that those two Nations maintain a strict mutual Amity The English and Iroquois are united to make War with the French when engag'd together against the French and attack'd 'em so vigorously that above half of 'em were kill'd on the spot some Prisoners were taken and the rest were put to flight On our side at the distance of 20 Leagues from

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 the Islinois Made English from the Paris Original ALSO The ADVENTURES of the Sieur de MONTAVBAN Captain of the French Buccaneers on the Coast of Guinea in the Year 1695. LONDON Printed for J. Tonson at the Judge's Head and S. Buckly at the Dolphin in Fleet-street and R. Knaplock at the Angel and Grown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1698. A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE Northern-America TRVTH and Sincerity being the chief Qualities which make a Book of this nature Valuable the Author of this promises himself upon that account a favourable Reception from the Publick and therefore thinks it would be superfluous to make a longer Preface Monsieur Cavelier de La Salle a Native of Roan in Normandy the chief Undertaker of the Discoveries in the Northern America which make the Subject-Matter of this Book was a Man of extraordinary Parts and undaunted Courage He was the first that formed the Design of Travelling from the Lake of Frontenac in Canada to the Gulph of Mexico through a vast unknown Country in order to bring the Inhabitants to the Knowledge of the Christian Religion and Extend the Dominions of the King of France This Gentleman having duly weighed all the Difficulties that were like to cross so Noble a Design came to Court to acquaint his Majesty with it who was pleased not only to approve his Enterprize but also to Encourage it by the Liberal Assistance and the Power he gave to M. La Salle to dispose of his New Discoveries as he should think fit I was then at the Court of France to sollicit some Employment having served his Majesty both by Sea and Land and lost one Hand in Sicily by a Granado and as M. La Salle was upon his departure the Prince of Conti was pleased to recommend me to him as fit to accompany him in his Undertaking whereupon I was easily admitted the Patronage of His Highness having been very useful to M. La Salle Every thing being ready for our departure we set sail from Rochel July 14. 1678. to the number of 30 Men amongst whom were Pilots Carpenters Smiths and other useful Artists and arrived at Quebec upon the 15th of September following we remained there some days after which having taken our Leave of Count Frontenac Governor-General of Canada we sailed up the River St. Laurence to Fort Frontenac where we landed That Fort lyes within 120 Leagues from Quebec about the 44th Degree of Latitude on the Mouth of a Lake called likewise Frontenac or Ontario which is near 300 Leagues about and has a communication with four other Lakes much of the same extent All those Lakes are Navigable and plentifully stored with Fish The Mouth or entrance of this Lake is defended by a Fort with four large Bastions which might protect a great number of Vessels against the attempts of any Enemy As M. La Salle had Erected this Fort the King had given him the Propriety thereof and of all the Lakes thereabouts with their dependencies The Country about it is so Charming that it is impossible to describe its Beauties The vast Meadows are intermixed with Woods and Forests full of all sorts of Fruit-Trees and watered with fine Brooks and Rivers It was in this place that we prepared our selves for our great Voyage and Glorious Undertaking of which no body I am sure can give a better account than my self not only because I accompanied the said M. La Salle but also because the chief Care and Burthen of that Perilous tho' Glorious Enterprize fell upon me by the untimely Death of that Gentleman The Account which I offer now to the Publick is extracted out of the Journal I kept wherein I set down things as they appeared to me 'T is true I am sometimes obliged to take things upon Trust because I could not be always with M. La Salle but I am so fully convinced of the Probity and Honesty of those upon whose Evidence I have advanced any thing that I may answer as well for their Observations as for my own The Reader must not therefore expect here Noble and Pompous Descriptions such as Authors use to adorn their Works with but a natural simplicity and a rigid fidelity If my Stile seems harsh and unpolite I have no other Apology for it but that I may have contracted some thing from the Commerce of the Savages of America with whom I have so long conversed Whosoever considers this Enterprize in it self the difficulties it was attended with and the advantages that Europe may reap from the discovery of those vast Countries which are above eighteen hundred Leagues North and South will I hope agree that an exact account thereof is worthy of the Curiosity of the Reader The Fertility of the Soil That large Country is now called by the name of Louisiana since the French took possession thereof in the Name of Lewis the Great The Soil is generally speaking so fertile that it produces Naturally without any Culture those Fruits that Nature and Art together have much ado to bring forth in Europe They have two Crops every Year without any great fatigue the Vines bring extraordinary Grapes without the Care of the Husbandmen and the Fruit-Trees need no Gardiners to look after them the Air is every where temperate the Country is watered with Navigable Rivers and delicious Brooks and Rivulets and diversified with Forests and Meadows it is stockt with all sorts of Beasts as Bulls Orignac's Wolves Lines Wild Asses Stags Goats Sheep Foxes Hares Beavers Otters Dogs and all sorts of Fowls which afford a plentiful Game for the Inhabitants They have discovered Mines of Lead and Iron and 't is not doubted but there are also Mines of Gold and Silver if they would give themselves the trouble to look for them but the Inhabitants of those Countries valuing things only as far as they are necessary for Life are yet unacquainted with the Fanciful Value we put upon those Metals and have not dig'd up the Earth to look for them The Manners of the Inhabitants Those Inhabitants have nothing of Man but the Shape and the Name they live without any Laws Religion Superiority or Subordination Independency and Liberty being their Summum Bonum or the ultimate end they propose to themselves Their Life is always wandering having no setled Possessions they take several Wives if they please whom they quit when they will and leave them to others just as they do their Habitations for after having for some time cultivated a piece of Ground they quit it without any occasion to Cultivate another and the first comer takes possession thereof so that they are perpetually changing their Habitations and by this continual motion every thing becomes in a manner common amongst them they know no Superiority and think the World is made

quick return of M. La Salle and all other Arguments that I could think on not forgetting the glory they had gained by their Fidelity and the Reward they might expect if they supported this Disgrace with Courage I took an exact Account of the Dammage we had sustained and sent it to M. La Salle I redoubled in the mean time my care and application to preserve our Correspondence with the Illinois and by these means we put our selves very near in as good a posture as before the number of Men excepted M. La Salle having received these dismal Tidings made a great search after those Rogues and pursued them so closely that part of them surrendred themselves and the rest were taken He caused the most Seditious to be Hang'd and pardon'd the rest He sent the Messenger back to me with a promise of a quick Supply and Orders to tarry for him in the Fort. A whole Year however elapsed in this expectation but our number being increased by the arrival of some French Men and the conjunction of some Savages we would have wanted nothing at all had not a sad and unforeseen Accident disappointed our Measures Our loss was hardly repaired when we fell into a greater danger The Iroquois come to attack the Illinois for in the Month of September 1687 we discovered within a quarter of a League of the Camp of the Illinois about 600 Iroquois armed with Bows Swords Halberds and a great many of them with fire-Fire-arms This unexpected Army frighted the Illinois and revived their suspicion of our Correspondence with their Enemies and I must confess I was in a great perplexity knowing not what to do in so nice a juncture However having determin'd my self I did whatever I could to encourage the Illinois and told them that I would go to the Camp of the Iroquois and endeavour to bring them to Terms assuring them that if I could not succeed I would share the danger they were in but that they had no time to lose and therefore advis'd them to send their Women and Children away and put themselves in good posture of defence This Proposal convinc'd them of the sincerity of our Intentions and therefore they gave me an Interpreter and one of their chief Men to accompany me and be Witness of my Negotiation The Army of the Iroquois divided into two Bodies and commanded by Tagancourte Chief of Tsonnontouans and Agoustot Chief of the Desouatages two experienc'd Generals That of the Illinois was not 500 strong and we were not upward of 25 French Men amongst them divided in their Battalious to incourage them by our Example and keep them in the best order we could I parted from our Army with my Interpreter an Illinois and two French Men and advanced toward the Iroquois whose Left Wing moved at the same time toward our Right where our Men appeared very resolute and prepar'd to make a vigorous Defence A custom observ'd amongst the Savages As soon as I came near them they shot at us but by chance none was wounded whereupon I sent back the Illinois and the two French-men taking upon my self all the peril attending such a Deputation As soon as I came at a convenient distance I shewed a Collar it being the Custom amongst the Savages to make all their Proposals with Collars the same being the Symbol of Peace Union and Alliance I advanced upon the publick Faith of the Badge but I was no sooner in the Camp but I was seized by those Villains one of whom took my Collar whilst another design'd to stab me with a Knife but it pleased God that the Knife slided along one of my Ribs which saved my Life The most Rational or rather the least Brutish of em rescued me from their Hands and after having stopt the Blood with a kind of Balsom conducted me to the middle of their Camp with my Interpreter where they asked me the Subject of my coming My Deputation to the Iroquois Tho' my strength was considerably abated by the loss of my Blood my Courage was not cast down neither was I daunted by their Number and Threats I complained therefore first of their unjust Proceedings and violation of their Publick Faith and then of their coming without any provocation to attack a Nation which was in Confederacy and under the Protection of the King of France my Master therefore I intreated them to return home if they had any respect for that Prince and that they would look upon the Illinois as their Friends since they were so united with us that whatsoever conspired their Destruction conspir'd our own I told them besides that they ought to consider the danger of their Enterprise the Illinois being about six Hundred men and the French above 200 and that my Mediation and Exhortation to Peace were not the effects of any Fear we had for them concluding that I intreated them to make Peace with the Illinois in the Name of our King and of Count Frontenack their Father and that I should not complain of the loss of my Blood if t was so happy as to succeed in my Negotiation While I was thus arguing the two Armies were skirmishing The Success of it and some time after an Iroquois came to give Advice to the General that their Right Wing began to give ground and that they had observed some French men among the Illinois who had made a great fire upon them This Advice came very unluckily for me for the Savages were so incensed against me that they presently talk'd of killing me I was preparing my self to suffer every thing but observing a young rash Iroquois standing behind me with a Razor in his Hand and knowing the Custom of that Cruel Nation which is to cut off their Enemies Head and then take off the Hair and Skin like a Cap which is amongst them the greatest Trophy I did not doubt hue this young Warrior had a great fancy to my Hair which he touch'd now and then and lest he should do it too soon I told him that he ought at least to expect the Orders of his Masters Tagancourte would have me put to death but Agoustot being a particular Friend of M. La Salle opposed the other General and by a kind of Miracle Mercy perhaps for the first time prevail'd with this Barbarous Nation and it was resolved to send me back to the Illinois and tell them they were disposed to a sincere Peace and Union giving me a fine Collar of Porcelain as a Token of their sincerity They protested that they would for the future live in Peace with the Illinois and look upon them as Brethren since they were Children of the Governour of Canada which they did not know before The consideration of the danger I had escaped Cured me almost of my Wound and gave me sufficient strength to return to our Camp I met about half the Way Father Gabriel de la Ribonde and Father Zenoble Membrè who almost dispaired of

other Post I should desire in America I thanked him for his kind Offers and told him I was not willing to take any Employment until M. de la Salle came back and so we parted As soon as I arriv'd I did not fail to write to M. de la Salle and give him an Account how I was served and how I thought my self wronged by being thus put out of the Command he had given me Adding that I really thought there might be some Danger of the Peoples sitting uneasie under a new Governour and forsaking their new Habitations or committing some Disorder I writ besides to M. de la Forest a Friend of mine to support my Interests with our common Protector These Letters had all the good effect I could wish or hope for I received an Answer to my Business by M. de la Forest himself who came back to Quebeck in the latter end of July 1684. I had the satisfaction to learn from him what a gracious reception M. de la Salle had met with at Court and what considerable Forces the King had granted him to settle the Colonies in the New-found-lands and withal that he was imbark'd for the Gulf of Mexico but what compleated my joy was that I triumphed over mine Enemies by my restitution to St. Louis's Fort in the Quality of Governour and Captain for which this Gentleman brought me the Letters which M. de la Salle had obtain'd from the King in my favour I equipp'd my self straightway with Arms and all Materials necessary as well for the Fortification of the place as for the raising of my Company And after we had spent some days together at Quebeck M. de la Forest and I went away together the First of Novebmer he for Frontenac of which place he was going Governour and I for the Illinois The Ice putting a stop to our Voyage on the River of St. Laurence we were forced to stay and Winter at Montreal until the next Spring in 1685. In the beginning of April we got up the River again as far as the Fort Frontenac where I took my leave of M. la Forest I went in a Canoos on the first Lake to Magara where after I had shot the fall of the River I got to Missilimachinac and then to Miamis and being come to the Mouth of the River of the Illinois I went to Fort St. Louis about June 15 in the same Year The Chevalier de Bogia immediately entertain'd me with all possible marks of Joy Friendship and Respect and I endeavour'd to make a suitable return to his Kindness but at last after having inform'd him of M. de la Salle's Embarking and of all other News then stirring I found my self oblig'd to shew him the Letters Patents to be Commander in Chief and Governour of Fort St. Louis with which the King thought sit to honour me He receiv'd this Order with a great deal of submission and put me again in possession of the place with all the Effects with which I had entrusted him assuring me at the same time that nevertheless he should still be ready to do me service upon all occasions and always to perform the Office of a faithful Friend We spent the rest of the day together in amicable Conversation and the next Morning he departed a third time for the Town of Quebeck In the mean while the Miamis and the Illinois neighbouring Nations and our Allies being at variance about certain trivial pretensions I endeavour'd to reconcile them having receiv'd from both Parties Hostages and Pledges of their Fidelity In the beginning of August being much disturb'd that I had heard no News of M. de la Salle I pass'd over to Missilimachinac to make some Enquiry after him There I was inform'd that the Marquess d'Enonville succeeded M. de la Barre M. D' Enonville nominated in the place of M. de la Barre in quality of Governour of New France and I had also the Honour to receive a Letter from him in which he was pleas'd to express his desire of entring into a Conference with me about the Design he had to make War with the Iroquois at the same time he gave me to understand that M. de la Salle having been for a long time at Sea had without doubt already enter'd the Gulf with four tight Ships given him by the King and that apparently he must needs have arriv'd at the Mouth of the River Mississipi or in some other Port. This Letter serv'd only to increase the Earnest desire I had to meet him insomuch that I immediately took care to provide what Supplies I could for him fitted out Twenty Canadians and returning to the Illinois with my new Recruits I arriv'd within a Month at St. Louis's Fort Where after having given necessary Orders I left the Command of the Place to the Sieur de Bellefontaine and set forward with Forty Men for the Gulf of Mexico Thus we pass'd down our River into the great one of Mississipi follow'd its Course to the Sea and spent about two Months in performing this Voyage Upon our Arrival on the Sea shore not meeting with what I sought for nor any Person who could give me any Information about the matter I sent out two Boats viz. one to the Easty and the other to the South-west to endeavour to make some Discovery They row'd up and down about Twenty Leagues from one side to another along the Coast and having descry'd nothing were oblig'd to stand in for some Port for want of Fresh Water and return'd to join our Fleet after a Course of two days without being able to get any notice of what I expected All that I received from them by way of Consolation was only a Porpoise and some very sine Shells of Mother of Pearl which they took on a Rock Therefore perceiving that it would be to no purpose to wait there any longer I advis'd with the most prudent Men of our Company about the Course we ought to steer at our return I was inclin'd to follow the Coast as far as Menada hoping by that means continually to discover some new Country or to take some good Prize But the most part were of the contrary Opinion affirming it was safer to keep a known Road rather than to take one that was not so and which otherwise could not but be of very difficult passage as well by reason of the High Lands along the Coasts as for the great number of Rivers that unload themselves into the Sea so that we were oblig'd to take a Resolution to return the same way that we came Before our Departure having observ'd that the Tree on which M. de la Salle had caus'd a Cross with the Kings Arms to be set up was ready to be thrown down by the boistrousness of the Winds and Waves we got up a little higher where having Erected a large Pillar we fixt a Cross upon it and underneath the Arms of France We lodg'd that Night in the