[22] La Salle’s brother, the Abbe Cavelier, Fathers Membre, Douay and Le Clerc, all more or less afterward associated with American exploration, were among this clerical contingent.
[23] Most interesting as to these troubles, and La Salle’s mental condition at this critical point, are the pages 97–109, vol. II of Parkman’s La Salle (Champlain edition).
[24] “Sixteen or seventeen years,” as he says in his Journal, under date of July, 1684; “so that, as he could hardly have entered the service before the age of 18 or 20, he must have been, at the time he linked his fortunes to those of La Salle, about 35 or 37 years old—hence born, probably, about 1643–5.”
[25] “Intendant” is the official French term.
[26] His words are “un fort honnête homme, et seul delatroupe de M. de La Salle, sur qui célèbre voyageur pût compter.”
[27] Knapsack, in modern parlance.
[28] Coureurs de bois.
[29] The Fr. reads thus, “l’un frère & les autres neveus de ...”—the one a brother of M. de La Salle, the others his nephews. There evidently were two nephews, named Cavalier—the name of La Salle’s family; although in this journal the elder nephew is generally styled M. Moranget.
[30] Cavalier gives the date as 23d or 24th July.
[31] Fr. “30 tonneux des Munitiens ou Marchandises, qui estoit fretée pour S. Domingae”—thirty casks of munitions or commodities which were intended for Santo Domingo.