We lay ashore, and our Hunters having that Day kill’d good Store of Ducks, Bustards and Teal, and the next Day two Goats, Monsieur _de la Sale_ sent Monsieur _de Beaujeu_ Part. We feasted upon the rest, and that good Sport put several Gentlemen that were then aboard Monsieur _de Beaujeu_, among whom were Monsieur _du Hamel_, the Ensign and the King’s Clerk, upon coming ashore to partake of the Diversion; but they took much Pains and were not successful in their Sport. In the mean Time many Casks were fill’d with Water, as well for our Ship as for Monsieur _de Beaujeu’s_. Some Days after Monsieur _d’ Aire_ the Lieutenant, came ashore to confer with Monsieur _de la Sale_, and to know how he would manage about the Provisions; but both of them persisting in their first Proposals and Monsieur _de la Sale_ perceiving that Monsieur _de Beaujeu_ would not be satisfied with Provisions for 15 Days, which he thought sufficient to go to the Place where he expected to find one of the Branches of the _Missisipi_, which he with good Reason believ’d to be about the Shoals, I have before spoken of, nothing was concluded as to that Affair. Monsieur _d’ Aire_ return’d to his Captain, and Monsieur _de la Sale_ resolv’d to land his Men; which could not be done for some Days, because of the foul Weather; but in the mean Time we kill’d much Game. During this little Interval, Monsieur _de la Sale_ being impatient to get some Intelligence of what he sought after, resolv’d to go himself upon Discovery, and to seek out some more useful and commodious River than that where they were. To this Purpose he took five or six of us along with him. We set out one Morning in so thick a Fog, that the hindmost could not perceive the Track of the foremost, so that we lost Monsieur _de la Sale_ for some Time. [Sidenote: _Account of the Country._] We travel’d till about three in the Afternoon, finding the Country for the most Part Sandy, little Grass, no fresh Water, unless in some Sloughs,[55] the Track of abundance of wild Goats, Lakes full of Ducks, Teals, Water-Hens, and having taken much Pains return’d without Success. The next Morning, Monsieur _de la Sale’s_ _Indian_, going about to find wild Goats, came to a Lake, which had a little Ice upon it, the Weather being cold, and Abundance of Fish dying about the Edges of it. He came to inform us, we went to make our Provision of them, there were some of a prodigious Magnitude, and among the rest extraordinary large Trouts, or else they were some Sort of Fish very like them. We caused some of each of a Sort to be boil’d in salt Water, and found them very good. Thus having Plenty of Fish and Flesh, we began to use ourselves to eat them both, without Bread. [Sidenote: _Feb. 1685_]