LOUISIANA. 



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LETTER VI. 



To the fame. 



An Account of the Author's Navigation from the A- 

 kanzas to the Illinois. The Kin^s Boat St. 

 Louis, on which the Author was, is overfet ; he 

 falls into the Miffifippi, and an Akanza faves 

 his life, 



S I R, 



??^^?^ AM now, thank God, arrived at Fort 

 ^ I g] Chartres^ after running many riiks on 

 ^^^^y this long and troublefome voyage. 

 We fet out from the Akanzas the 7th of Novem- 

 ber, on our voyage hither. We have gone 

 three hundred leagues without meeting with any 

 village or habitation. As this extent of country 

 is abfolutely uninhabited, there are happily great 

 flocks of wild oxen, flags, and roe-bucks, to be 

 met with, efpecially in this feafon when the wa- 

 ters 



