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"Towards the end of the month of September following, Sieur 

 de la Véranderie received two delega4;e3 coming from the Cris and 

 Assiniboels, who asked him on the part of their nations, to send canoes 

 to their tribes in order to supply their needs. This officer granted to 

 the delegates a canoe manned by six men and under the command of 

 one of his children, who was escorted by the Indians as far as Fort 

 Maurepas, and he gave his son instructions for his guidance that he 

 might acquire knowledge during his voyage. 



" One of the principal things which he recommended to him was 

 to explore the Ouachipouannes, otherwise called the Koiiatheattes, a 

 white and civilized people who cultivate the land and live in forts and 

 houses, and who, according to the knowledge of the Indians, lived at 

 a distance of not more than one hundred and fifty leagues from Fort 

 Maurepas; to induce these people to send to Fort Maurepas delegates 

 of their nation, in order to form an alliance with the French; and to 

 tell them that, when one of their number had come the winter before, 

 the commandant had only been informed of the fact after his depar- 

 ture, which had been for him a cause of sorrow as well as for the other 

 French. 



" Sieur de la Véranderie added to these instructi'ons to notify the 

 Assiniboels and Cris to be at their fort during the month of January 

 following, and that he would explain to them there the instructions of 

 the Great Chief of all the French. 



"During the month of October following, a great number of 

 Indians, Cris, Monsonis and Assiniboels, came to Monsieur de la 

 Véranderie, and the chief of the Cris, wlho was the spokesman of these 

 nations, after having shown how their tribes were sensible of the 

 accident that had occurred to the French, proposed to him again to 

 come at their head to avenge the dead. They represented that they 

 were very sorry that their death had retarded the establishment of a 

 fort which they had promised to them at the far end of Lake 

 Ouinipigon, where they could have found the subsistence of their 

 families. 



" The chief asked, lastly, that he would leave with them to spend 

 the winter at Fort Maurepas one of his children, and to allow them to 

 adopt his son the Chevalier as their chief, in the place of his brother 

 whom they had lost." .... 



In the Collection Moreau St. Mery, of the French Colonial 

 Archives, there is a memoir of Lavérendrye, addressed to M. De 

 Beauharnois, and dated at Fort St. Charles, in 1737, which seems to 

 cover generally the same ground and the same period of time as the 

 extract from Lavérendrye's journal forwarded to Paris by Beauharnois, 

 under date of the 14th October, 1737, quoted above. At the same 



