[169] Parkman, _The Discovery of the Great West_, sixth edition, p. 27. [170] Thwaites, _Father Marquette_, p. 34. [171] It should be noted that the missions never attained the same prominence among the French, within the limits of the present United States, as among the Spaniards. “The neophyte was too much a child, too much a slave, too little a man” to please the Frenchman. [172] Margry, _op. cit._, v, p. 162. La Salle, on his expedition, employed Indian hunters who were not slaves. Joutel’s _Journal of La Salle’s Last Voyage_, pp. 20, 76, 82, 94, 95, 97, 98; Parkman, _The Discovery of the Great West_, sixth edition, pp. 144, 356. [173] _Jesuit Relations_, xxx, p. 133. [174] _Archives du Ministre des Colonies, C. 13 ... Correspondance Générale_, ii, 1707–1712. [175] Lowry and McCardle, _A History of Mississippi from the Discovery_, etc., second edition, p. 84. [176] Thwaites, _Early Western Travels_, xiii, p. 179. [177] Thomas, _The Indians of North America_, etc., p. 321. [178] Garneau, _Histoire du Canada_, etc., fourth edition, ii, p. 95. “The number of the Natchez that escaped the grasp of Périer, at this time, has been put down by some writers as three hundred warriors.” French, _Historical Memoirs of Louisiana_, series 5, p. 102. [179] Hodge, _op. cit._, pt. ii, p. 36; Monette, _History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi_, etc., i, p. 272, states the number as four hundred and twenty-seven. Lowry and McCardle, _op. cit._, p. 85, place the number as forty-five male Indians, and four hundred and fifty women and children. [180] Pittman, _The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi_, Hodder edition, p. 80. [181] On the passage, some of the Indians, for “showing their resentment by upbraiding the authors of their misery,” were thrown into the sea. _Ibid._, p. 80. [182] Marbois, _op. cit._, p. 119, and appendix, No. 4. [183] Ferland, _Cours d’Histoire du Canada_, seconde partie, p. 446. [184] Landun, _Journal d’un Voyage à la Louisiane fait en 1720_, p. 247; Margry, _op. cit._, vi, p. 316; La Harpe’s _Journal_ in French, _op. cit._, p. 351. [185] Martin, _The History of Louisiana from the Earliest Period_, i, p. 256. [186] _Ibid._, i, p. 256. [187] Dubroca, _L’Itinéraire des Français dans la Louisiane_, p. 81. [188] Thomas, _The Indians of North America_, etc., p. 319; Cramoisy, _Journal de la Guerre du Micissippi contre les Chicachas_, p. 65. [189] Cramoisy, _op. cit._, p. 65. [190] Gayarré, _Louisiana, its History as a French Colony_, p. 64. [191] Cramoisy, _op. cit._, pp. 49, 65, 67, 68, 89; Margry, _op. cit._, v, p. 432. [192] Margry, _op. cit._, iii, p. 564. [193] French, _op. cit._, pt. i, p. 42. [194] Margry, _op. cit._, v, p. 476; French, _op. cit._, new series, i. p. 100. Hennepin, _A New Discovery_, etc., p. 631, mentions the French of Kaskaskia using both Indian and negro slaves.