332 TRAVELS through 





LETTER XX. 



7o the fame, 



the Author goes to New Orleans. Caufe of the 

 troubles which agitate that Place, Moving 

 Relation of M, de Belle-Ifle'j Captivity among 

 the Attakapas. Curious Animals and falutary 

 Simples to be met with in Louifiana. 



S I R, 



K^^l^ HAVE fo much news to communf. 

 ^ I ^. nicate to you, that I know not where 

 kf S:^!^ to begin : I wrote to you from Tom- 

 hekbe^ that every thing was in confufion in the 

 capital ; indeed every body talks of quarrels and 

 divifions •, avidity and intereft are every where 

 lighting the torch of difcord. As I neither have, 

 nor will have, any part in all thefe quarrels, and 

 as I cannot fatisfy my zeal for the king's ferv!ce 

 in this colony, where every thing is in diforder, 



I have 



