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Extract From a Letter From Bienville

(October 27, 1711)

 

Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de in: English Translation of Margry, vol. 5 (also Découvertes, vol. 5, p. 372, and Fol. 567), pp. 464-465.

 

pp. 464, 465.

 


(page 464)

XII

Relations cannot be established
with the Miamis and Maskoutins settled on the Wabash.

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Extract from a letter from Lemoyne de Bienville

27th of October, 1711

All the tribes around us, which are our allies, in spite of the wretched condition to which they see us reduced, continue their attachment to us nevertheless, and we often receive deputations from the Indians on the Mississippi. The only exceptions are the tribes who are neighbours of the Illinois, such as the Miamis and Mascoutins who have settled on the Wabash with whom we have been unable to maintain any relations since the Frenchmen who were on their way from Canada have been plundered there, at the instigation of a man named Langlois, (page 465) the interpreter at Detroit.1
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1. The Sieur d'Artaguiette was misinformed when he wrote against Langlois, the interpreter at Detroit. He is the only Canadian whose conduct can be said to be irreproachable, for he is most prudent and religious, receives the Sacrament every fortnight and lives among his family in the most respectable manner possible. . .

Since my arrival here, I have observed that MM. de Bienville and d'Artaguiette have been too ready to believe what they were told, not only as to affairs of this kind, but generally in all matters, in which they have given their decisions without probing them thoroughly.

(Extract from a letter from Lamothe Cadillac of the 26th of October 1713, written at Fort St. Louis in Louisiana).


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