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vanced, and we have yet three hundred leagues 

 to go, we run the riik of being flopped by the 

 ice, and of wintering on the road. We have 

 been obliged to flop here for preparing the bif- 

 cuit necefTary for fo long a voyage •, for in this 

 feafon we mud combat both the current and the 

 north wind. According to all appearances, I 

 Ihall not be able to write before next year. This 

 letter fets out by a boat, which will arrive in time 

 before the departure of a man of war for France^ 

 where I hope my letter will find you in good 

 health. I beg you would let me hear from you ; 

 for I afTure you, you can do me no greater 

 pleafure. ■ ■ 



I am, &c. 



At the Akanzas^ the 6ith 

 of November 1751. 



P. S. I found a Meflizo Indian among the 

 Akanzas j and, upon queflioning him concern- 

 ing his origin, I heard that he was the fon of 

 Rutel^ that failor from Bretany who loll himfelf, 

 when M. de la Salle came down the MiJ/ifippi in 

 1682, and of whom I have had the honour of 

 fpeaking before. 



This 



