| edit._ | | | | [90] _Fr._ “belle campagne.” | | | | [91] _Fr._ “quarante anciens Sauvages”—forty old Indians. [Later, | | the translator uses the proper word “Elders.”] _C. C. edit._ | | | | [92] The Eng. translator here omits the words in the _Fr._ | | original “& to make lime” (“& à fair de la chaux”). | | | | [93] This occurred, according to Douay’s account, on the 19th | | March, 1689. | | | | [94] _Fr._ “dans le temps qu’il y avait tout à esperer des ses | | grands travaux”—at a time when there was the greatest hopes of | | the success of his enterprise. _C. C. edit._ | | | | [95] The author referred to here, is Father Douay, whose | | statement to this effect may be doubted, as Parkman observes that | | he did not “always write honestly,” and that he probably invented | | the story of the burial, to cover his own dereliction in having | | failed (through terror) to discharge this duty. See Parkman’s _La | | Salle and the Discovery of the Great West_, ii, 176, 178, note, | | Champlain edition. This assassination occurred in a southern | | branch of the Trinity River. | | | | [96] _Fr._ “Tilleul.” | | | | [97] Trappings. The _Fr._ word used here is “ajustemens.” | | | | [98] _Fr._ “d’autre leurs arcs & deux fléches seulement,”—“others | | their bows & two arrows only.” [d’autre is a misprint for | | “d’autres.”] _C. C. edit._ | | | | [99] _Fr._ “Il nous fit bien des caresses, il estoit tout nud, | | comme eux, & ce qui est surprenant, il avoit presque oublié son | | langage naturel.”—“He gave us many caresses; he was, like them, | | quite naked; and what is remarkable, he had almost forgotten his | | native tongue.” M. B. A. | | | | [100] _Fr._ “pav halneaux”—probably a misprint for | | “hameaux”—hamlets. M. B. A. |