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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Questioned whether he has no knowledge that goods have been (p. 304) shipped belonging to the late Mr. D?Iberville and to his brothers, Messrs. De Bienville and De Chateaugue or to other officers, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that he has bought and seen sold meat that the Indians brought in exchange for the presents that the King makes them, he said ?No,? that he did not buy any at all.
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 ?No,? that he did not buy any at all.	*
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, has bought goods, of what sort, at what price he resold them, he said ?Yes,? that he bought from Sieur de Bienville twenty or twenty-five ells of linen at fifty-five sous and two axes for three piastres.
Questioned where he bought these goods, whether it was in a house belonging to Sieur de Bienville, (p. 305) he said that he bought them in his house near his garden.
Questioned whether he saw in this house other goods, he said that there were other axes, guns, knives, pistols and all sorts of other goods.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville has sent Canadians and people maintained in the King?s service 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 during all these trips for the account of Sieur de Bienville and whether he, the deponent, did not buy any at all, he said that he has no knowledge of it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville caused an Alabama prisoner to be burnt with slow fire at the gate of the fort, he said that he saw nothing of it.
FACTS THAT SIEUR DE LA SALLE ADVANCED BY HIS LETTER WRITTEN TO MY LORD THE COUNT DE PONTCHAR-TRAIN. OF THE FIRST OF OCTOBER, 1707.
Questioned whether he is pleased with the government (p. 306) of Sieur de Bienville and whether he knows nothing against his conduct or his person, he said ?No? and that one day when he refused to put together and clean a gun that Sieur Darrac, an officer of the Canadians, had brought to him Sieur de Bienville had made him remain in irons twenty days, that he required him to drag pieces of timber to support his house which was in danger of falling, that he even refused him milk for his child in an illness from which this child, died, and that he has always had him put in prison for very slight causes.