?6 T Pv A V E L S THROUGH 



for the memory of this famous man is, that he 

 has not been pitied by any body, and that the 

 bad fuccefs that has attended his undertakings 

 has given him the appearance of an adventurer 

 among thofe who only judge from appearances. 

 Unhappily they are commonly the greatefl: num- 

 ber, and their voice is, in a manner, the voice of 

 the people. He has further been reproached with 

 never taking advice from any body, and with ha-: 

 ying ruined his private affairs by his obftinacy *. 



Thus ended this unlucky undertaking; rpany 

 things confpired to make it abortive : it would 

 at lead have had part of the wifhed-for fuccefs^ 

 if a fettlement on the mouth of the Mifllfippi 

 had been the only thing in view, as many people 

 thought it was. It is certain, that when-M. da 

 Beaujeu abandoned M. dc la Salle in St. Bernard's 

 Bay, the latter foon found out, that he was to 



the 



■•''* Ip order to diminifti the villainy of the deed of Duhaut, 

 it has been fpread, that M. d^ la Salle had killed young 

 Piihaut with his own hands, and that he had treated feveral 

 pthers in the fame manner ; that it was defpair and revenge 

 that animated the confpirators, who feared to perilh them- 

 fdves by his injuftice ' and feverity. One ought to be (o, 

 much the more upon one's guard againft fuch calumniating 

 jdifcourfes, as it is but too common to increafe the faults of 

 the unhappy, and tc attribute to theiji even thofe which they 



fcally have not. 



