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Envy : The firft was in continual Danger of being loft, and her 

 PafTengers arrived at Ne^iv Orleans rather dead than alive. The 

 other was run a-ground about hall Way, and five Perfons were 

 drowned in a Meadow, of which the Storm had made a Lake. 

 The Wind continued all Night with the fame Violence, and 

 the Rain did not ceafe till the next Day at Noon. It began 

 again at Night, and continued till Day, with Thunder. 



When we fail in Sight of this Coafl, it appears very ples-^ 

 ^ir • fant, but when we come nearer it is not the 



, . ;^ n fame 1 hinp;. It is all alono: a band, as at 



this Loaft. . r^-ï ' J. rj 1 



the LîLoxz, and we find on it only poor 

 Woods. I obferved here a Kind of Sorrel, which has the fame 

 Tafte as our's, but the Leaves of which are narrower; and which 

 caufes, as they fay, the Bloody-Flux. There is alfa in thefa 

 Parts a Kind of Afli, which they call Bois Amourette (Lowers 

 Wood), the Bark of which is full of Prickles, and pafî'es for 

 a fovereign Remedy, and very fpeedy againft the Tooth-Ach. 



The 26th it rained all the Day, and tho' the Sea was calm, 

 we made little Way. We got a little farther the 27th, but the 

 following Night we went out of our Courfe above the Ifland of 

 Pearls, The next Day we went and encamped at the Entrance 

 of Lake Pontcharfrai?i, having left a little before on the Right 

 the River of Pearls, which has three Mouths. The Separation of 

 thefe three Branches is at four Leagues from the Sea, and the 

 Biloxies are a little above it. 



In the Afternoon we crofTed the Lake of Pontchartrain : This 

 ^ , J J ^ Traverfe is feven or eight Leagues, and at 

 Pontchartra^r Midnight we entered the Bayouc of St, John. 



Thofe who firil navigated this Lake, found 

 it, as they fay, fo full of Caimans, that they could fcarce give a 

 Stroke of the Oar without hitting one. They are at prefent very 

 fcarce in it, and we only faw fome Traces of them at our en- 

 camping; for thefe Animals lay their Eggs on the Land.-— Af- 

 ter- I had refted myfelf a little at coming out of the Lake, I 

 purfuedmy Way by Land, and I arrived at Nenju Orleans before 

 Day. 



The Jdour was gone from thence, but not far, and I came up 

 U n; / .1 ^it^ next Day, the firft of April. The 



N SZion doZl I^^^^^^io^ ^^^^.s at its Height, and of Confe- 

 a^iga ton o^ quence the River much more rapid than I 

 the Ki^er. ^^^^^ ^^^^ Months before. Mforeover, a 



Ship, efpecially a Pink, is not fo eafily worked as a Sloop ; and 

 as our Sailors v^'cre not ufed to this Navigation, we had a great 

 deal of Trouble to get out of the River. The Ship, driven 

 fometimes to one Shore, and fometimes to the other, ofcen trngled 

 its Yards and Tackling in the Trees, and they wjre cbliged 



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