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DE TONTY ^NT C'T. CANOE TO''ARD I''EXTCO AT-TD ANOTHER 30 LEAGUES TO THE EAST
Anril - 1686
Vith thirty (?5) Frenchmen, and five Illinois and Chawanons,
De Tontv left Fort St. Louis for the sea Feb. 13, 1686, and reached the sea (mouth of the Fississippi River) in Holy Week Anril 10, 1636.
I sent out two canoes, one towards the coast of Fexico, and the other towards Carolina, to see if they could discover anything.
They each sailed about thirty leagues, but proceeded no farther for want of fresh water. They reported that i/here they had been the land began to rise. They brought me a porpoise and some oysters.
As it would take us five months to reach the French settlements, I proposed to my men, that if they would trust to me to follow the coast as far as Fanhatte, that by this means we should arrive shortly at Montreal; that ’->e should not lose our time, because we might discover some fine country, and might even take some booty on our way. Part of my men were willing to adopt my plan; but as the rest were opposed to it, I decided to return the way I eame.
The tide does not rise more than two feet peroindicularly on the seacoast, and the land is very low at the entrance of the river.
Source:	"Journeys of La Salle - TT2F0IR by the SIEUR DE LA TONTY"
"Memoir sent in 1693, on the discovery of the Mississippi and the Neighboring Nations by M. D. La Sal^e, from the year 1678 to the time of his death, and by the Sieur De Tonty to the year 1691"
psr 3*+ (edited by Isaac Joslin Cox — 1905	(N.Y.)
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