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xnt lofe two days, and prevented my joining the 

 convoy again. 



To increafe my misfortunes, when I v/as but 

 fourteen leagues from the Illinois^ my boat, three 

 days- after it was ftranded, ran againfl a tree, of 

 which the Mijjifippi is full, and efpecially in time 

 of low watery the fliock. burft the boat, and 

 fuch a quantity of water got in, that it funk in 

 lefs than an hour's t'uPie. By this accident I loft 

 all I had : I ran t\\t rifle of perifhing too \ for I 

 had thrown myfelf into a piragua, but it was fo 

 full of goods faved from the wreck, that it 

 overfet > feveral foidiers were drowned, and I 

 fhouid have fnared the fame fate, had it not been 

 for a generous Akanza^ who, not fearing the 

 feverity of the feafon, leapt into the water, and 

 feized me by my riding-coat; 



After tbefe adventures I am at laft- arrived 

 2Xyoxt Char Ires : I had not been long here, 

 )A'hen Lwas witrids to an event which might have 

 had very unhappy confeqi^€n£es. Tht\ Pehen- 

 giiickt^is 2^':\d~iht OuyatanGtis had agreed Upon the 

 total ruin of live French vilLi=ges among the Hit-, 

 nois, M. de Mccarty had fent me beforcrhand 

 to prepare quarters for foqie troops that'came in 



I a con- 



