| | | [49] They must have already passed the mouth of the Mississippi | | (owing to La Salle’s having failed to determine its longitude, | | in 1682, when he had taken its latitude), and were then sailing | | along the Texas coast, probably near Galveston Bay, more than 400 | | miles westward of their desired objective. See _note_ to p. 120, | | vol. ii, _Parkman’s La Salle_ (Champlain edition). | | | | [50] In the _Fr._ 28th. | | | | [51] In the _Fr._ “notre chaloupe”—our boat. | | | | [52] _Fr._ “a quatre piez d’eau”—_i. e._ in four feet of water. | | | | [53] _Fr._ “une partie s’embarqua”—a party embarked. | | | | [54] _Fr._ “marres.” | | | | [55] _Fr._ “marres.” | | | | [56] _Fr._ “canot” [thus explained in a marginal note: “Canot; | | _est un petit batteau fait de bois, ou d’ écorces, ou de | | peau_”—_i. e._ Canoe, is a little boat made of wood, or bark, or | | hide]. _C. C. edit._ | | | | [57] “Chef”—in the French. | | | | [58] _Fr._ “laides”—_i. e._ ugly. | | | | [59] _Fr._ “quatre sentinelles”—four sentinels. | | | | [60] _Fr._ “village porchain du lieu”—_i. e._ near the place. | | | | [61] _Fr._ “jointes au dégoût qui la perte de nôtre navire avoit | | causé parmi la pluspart des honnestes gens qui avoient suivi M. | | de la Salle”—together with the anxiety which the loss of our ship | | had occasioned among most of the people of respectability who had | | followed M. de La Salle. _C. C. edit._ | | | | [62] Though evidently not altogether satisfied in his own mind | | that he had reached the mouth of the Mississippi, La Salle, | | desirous to relieve himself of the many complications and |