| annoyances arising from the strained relations between himself | | and Beaujeu, decided to land his soldiers at a place which he | | named St. Louis Bay (now known as Matagardu Bay), thinking to | | send them northward along the coast until they should come to the | | principal outlet of the “fatal river” as Joutel frequently calls | | the Mississippi. While here the loss of the _Amiable_ and its | | valuable stores, the sickness of many of the company, and finally | | the departure of the _Joly_ with Beaujeu, left La Salle in a sad | | plight. (See _note_ concerning the relations between La Salle and | | Beaujeu, in Parkman’s _La Salle_, ii, 133 Champlain edition). | | | | [63] _Fr._ “trois ou quatre”—three or four. | | | | [64] _Fr._ “vouloit faire un Fort plus avant dans le | | pays”—designed to establish a fortified post farther inland. _C. | | C. edit._ | | | | [65] _Fr._ “vaisseau, qui”—_i. e._ ship, which. | | | | [66] This was on the river Lavaca (La Vache) at the head of | | Matagorda Bay, and called by Joutel _Rivière aux Bœufs_. | | | | [67] St. Louis Bay, St. Bernard’s Bay, Matagorda Bay, Espíritu | | Bay—are all names by which this Bay has been known. La Salle had | | a peculiar _penchant_ for naming his forts, and after his royal | | master, Louis XIV; New Fort, St. Louis of the Illinois, Fort St. | | Louis of Texas, etc. | | | | [68] In the _Fr._ this sentence is a marginal note. | | | | [69] The construction of this sentence, leaves us somewhat in | | doubt, as to whether the girl and the woman were not one and the | | same person. In the _Fr._ it reads “une fille, une femme blessée | | à la cuisse d’un coup de fusil, dont elle mourut—a girl, a woman | | wounded in the thigh by a gun-shot, who died of the wound.” _C. | | C. edit._ | | | | [70] _Fr._ “paquet,” or knapsack. | | | | [71] _Fr._ “On voyoit du Côté du midy, & vers l’Orient, la Baye, | | & les campagnes qui la bordent, de l’Orient au Septentrion, | | la Rivière se presentoit le long d’un petit costan,”—To the |