[52] Fr. “a quatre piez d’eau”—i. e. in four feet of water.
[53] Fr. “une partie s’embarqua”—a party embarked.
[54] Fr. “marres.”
[55] Fr. “marres.”
[56] Fr. “canot” [thus explained in a marginal note: “Canot; est un petit batteau fait de bois, ou d’ écorces, ou de peau”—i. e. Canoe, is a little boat made of wood, or bark, or hide]. C. C. edit.
[57] “Chef”—in the French.
[58] Fr. “laides”—i. e. ugly.
[59] Fr. “quatre sentinelles”—four sentinels.
[60] Fr. “village porchain du lieu”—i. e. near the place.
[61] Fr. “jointes au dégoût qui la perte de nôtre navire avoit causé parmi la pluspart des honnestes gens qui avoient suivi M. de la Salle”—together with the anxiety which the loss of our ship had occasioned among most of the people of respectability who had followed M. de La Salle. C. C. edit.