| marginal note in the _Fr._ calls this tribe _Cahaynaho_.] _C. C. | | edit._ | | | | [114] _Fr._ “aspiroient grandement”—ardently longed for. | | | | [115] _Fr._ “Quelques une cependant sont plus proprement; mais | | generalement, non”—Some nevertheless are more cleanly, but | | generally they are not. | | | | [116] _Fr._ “des Cannes seiches allumées”—dry reeds aflame. | | | | [117] _Fr._ “difficile”—difficult. | | | | [118] This was the famous expedition of the Marquis de Nonville | | against the Senecas, in which Tonty, Du Shut and Duromtage, came | | to the aid of the Governor, with 180 French _coureurs de bois_ | | and 400 Indians from the upper lakes. | | | | [119] The Marquis De Nonville, Governor General of Canada. | | | | [120] _Fr._ “billet & reconnoissance”—_i. e._, note and receipt. | | | | [121] Father Claude Allouez. | | | | [122] Michilimackinac. | | | | [123] _Fr._ “manne”—maple sap? | | | | [124] _Fr._ “cerfeüil”—chervil. | | | | [125] The concealment of the fact of La Salle’s death, which | | was maintained by this party of survivors, until, and for some | | time after, their return to France, gave rise to an heroic | | manifestation of courage and friendship, by the Chevalier Tonti, | | who had been left in charge of Fort Louis on the Illinois. | | | | Although they had been, on their journey northward, to Canada, | | the guests of that officer at Fort St. Louis, from September, | | 1687, till the end of February, 1688, they had made no disclosure | | of that fact. And, it was not until some months later, that Tonti | | heard of it, from the lips of one of his own men, Couture by | | name, who had been left at the Arkansas, and who had been told |