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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville drinks the wine of the sick and causes it to be drunk and sold, he said ?No,? but that very far from drinking it and selling it, he gave him some several times from his own supply.
Questioned whether he knows the man named Humery and what sort of a man he is, he said ?Yes,? that he long performed the functions (p. 291) of a warehouse-keeper.
Questioned whether he has no reason to complain of this man, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that the Canadians sold at an exorbitant price goods that were delivered to them from the warehouses at a moderate price, he said that he has no knowledge of it.
Questioned whether he, the deponent, did not buy some from them, of what sort and for how much, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that they have even sold them back to the King at a price four hundred per cent above the price at which they had been delivered to them, he said that he had no knowledge of it at all.
Questioned whether it is not true that goods have been unloaded from the King?s vessel L?Aigle for the account of Mr. De Noyan and of his officers and how much, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether he, the deponent, did not buy some, how much and at what price, he said that he bought from Mr. De Noyan twenty-one pieces (p. 292) of Brittany linen, four piastres each, and some thread at twelve livres a pound, eight to nine livres, and four quarts of brandy at forty piastres a quart; this brandy comes from Nievre.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville, the commandant, and Sieur de Chateaugue, his brother, bought some, how much and at what price, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that they sent them by the King?s vessels to be sold at Vera Cruz, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that on all the voyages the vessels have brought goods for the account of these two brothers, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville dispatched a ship?s boat after another that was carrying the letters of Mr. La Vente, a curate, to the Aigle, he said that that was the first time he had heard it mentioned.
Questioned whether it is not true that when the ship?s boat despatched by Sieur de Bienville had overtaken (p. 293) the one despatched by Sieur de La Vente he had the letters delivered to him, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether he does not know at all the people who were in these ship?s beats, he said that he knows nothing about it.