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Letter to Pontchartrain
(Port Dauphin, Oct. 27, 1711)
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Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de in: (AC, C13, Gen. Corr. Louisiana, vol. II, pp. 567-607) and in Mississippi Provincial Archives, vol. III, pp. 158-171. |
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p. 162.
. . . All the nations that surround us and who are allied with us in spite of the distress in which they see us do not fail to continue their attachment to us. We often receive embassies from those of the Mississippi. It is only the nations in the vicinity of the Illinois such as the Miamis and Mascoutens who are established on the Wabash with whom we have not been able to have close relations since the time that the Frenchmen coming from Canada were pillaged there through the instigation of a man named Langlois, an interpreter of Detroit (p. 578) according to the report of the Indians and of the French also who were pillaged.
Because you do me the honor of informing me, my lord, in your Lordship's letter of the twelfth of September of last year I am convinced that Mr. de Lamothe Cadillac in keeping with your Lordship's orders will treat more favorably those who pass through in order to come in this direction and I do not doubt that if that still depends upon him he will try to reestablish peace between the nations that are annoying the French as they pass through and the Illinois who have French missionaries among them and with whom it is important for us not to be at war. . . .
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