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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Questioned whether he has no knowledge that goods belonging to the late Mr. D?Iberville and to his brothers, Messrs. De Bienville and De Chateaugue, or to other officers have been shipped, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that he bought and saw sold meat that the Indians brought in exchange for the presents that the King gives them, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that he, the deponent, bought goods from Sieurs de Bienville and de Chateaugue, what goods and at what price, he said ?Yes,? that he bought two pieces of Brittany linen containing about sixty ells at sixty-five sous an ell and that he bought other clothes for his own use.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville has always had a warehouse under another name than his own, and that he, the deponent, bought goods, of what kind, at what price, what goods, and for how much they were sold, he said that he knows nothing about it and that he has not (p. 281) bought any from him except at the fort.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville sent some Canadians and men maintained in the service of the King to travel through the woods and look for peltries, he said that he knows nothing about it.	?
Questioned whether it is not true that these Canadians carried on trade for the account of Sieur de Bienville during all these journeys and whether he, the deponent, did not buy any at all, he , said that he knows nothing about it, that he only knows that these Canadians may have brought some peltries.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville did not have an Alabama prisoner slowly burnt to death26 at the gate of the fort, he said that he has knowledge only that three were put to death by some slaves.
FACTS THAT SIEUR DE LA SALLE ADVANCED BY HIS LETTER WRITTEN TO MY LORD THE COUNT DE PONTCHAR-TRAIN. OF OCTOBER 1st, 1707.
Questioned whether he is pleased with the government of Sieur (p. 282) de Bienville and whether he knows nothing against his conduct or his person, he said ?No,? and that when he was at Pensacola working to earn his living and had made an agreement with the governor of that fort Sieur de Bienville had ordered him not to work there at all and to remain here. Whereupon without paying attention to that order he had gone to finish his work, although Sieur de Bienville had given him permission only to go and get his* tools. ?Then Sieur de Bienville sent two other men to finish the work that I had already begun. The governor of Pensacola sent me back here and when I arrived here he had me put in irons for a week at the end of which time when I had gone out he had sent men after me in order
wThe French of this expression is a fait bruler a petit feu.