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Proces Verbal of the Taking
Possession of
Louisiana at the Mouth of the Mississippi
(by the Sieur de La Salle, on the 9th of April, 1682)
de la Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur in: B. F. French,
Historical Collections of Louisiana,
pt. I., 1846, pp. 45-50.
pp. 45, 46.
(page 45). . .
On the 27th of December, 1681, M. de la Salle departed on foot to join M. De Tonty, who had preceded him with his followers and all his equipage 40 leagues into the Miamis country, where the ice on the River Chekagou, in the country of the Mascoutens, had ar- (page 46) rested his progress, and where, when the ice became stronger, they used sledges to draw the baggage, the canoes, and a wounded Frenchman, through the whole length of this river, and on the Illinois, a distance of 70 leagues."
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