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FLEUR DE LYS AND CALUMET
holding hands; at the head is the leader of the dance, who with one sound of his whistle makes them break their circle; and, as they intermingle among themselves, always keeping to the rhythm, the leader of the dance with another sound of his whistle makes them form their line into a ring again with a surprising precision. They have still other dances about which I shall speak more at length in the course of this narrative.
We spent the night at the house of the Grand Chief, sleeping on flat cane beds stretched and interwoven like camp cots, some tied to others, and all covered with buffalo skins. Next morning we took short walks into their countryside, where they sow their corn. The women were there to work with the men. The savages have flat, hooked sticks with which they pick the ground, as they know nothing about plowing the way we do in France. They scratch the ground with these hooked sticks and uproot the canes and weeds, which they leave on the ground out in the sun for two weeks or a month; and afterwards they set fire to them, and when they are reduced to ashes, they take a stick as big as one’s arm and sharpened at one end and make a hole in the ground every three feet, into which they put seven or eight grains of corn per hole and cover it over with dirt. In this way they plant their corn and their beans. When the corn is a foot high, they take great care, as we do in France, to pull up the weeds that grow in it; this they repeat two or three times during the year. They still use their wooden picks nowadays despite the fact that we have given them iron ones, because they find theirs lighter'. Wc stayed a few more days at this village and then returned to our fort.
Chapter 2
The Year 1700
Second discovery of the Missicipy, which M. d’Hyberville as-cendcd from its embouchure at the sea up to the Tinssas—The author’s third trip upon the Missicipy, which he ascended as high as the Saut de St. Anthoine—Buffaloes described—Fort Huilier established on the Riviere Verte
E WERE quite impatient for the return of M. dTIyberville and were constantly out on the point before the fort keeping watch for him. Finally on Kings’ Eve, 1700, we heard cannon-firing from Isle Surgere, five leagues from our fort. It was M. d’Hyberville arriving with the Count de Surgere: M. d’Hyberville in command of La Kenommcc and the Count de Surgere of La Gironde, a seven-hundred-ton flute.1 M. de Sauvol had cannon fired, and all the muskets of the troops, to assemble everybody at the fort for the reception. M. d’Hyberville was received with all possible joy. But he remained at the fort only four days, after which he picked out sixty men to go with him to the Missicipy River. From the officers, he chose to accompany him MM. de Bienville and de Chateaugue,2 his two brothers, and [MM. Dugue] 3 and de Boisbrian, also two
1	A warship used chiefly to carry supplies.
2	Antoine Le Moyne dc Chateaugu^, Iberville’s brother who after long and important scrvice in Louisiana became Governor of lie Royalc.
8	Omitted from Clermont and from Margry, Dccouvertci, V, 392; thus Margry’s reading *'ct dc Boisbriant, aussy deux frercs” is illogical. The prominent one of the Dugue brothers was Pierre Dugue dc Boisbriant, the ad interim governor of Louisiana after Bienville’s recall in 1724. Grace King has suggested that the Dugue name in the Creole families Dugue de Livaudais and Dugue may have come from the