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La Salle and the discovery of the great West - North Central ...

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294 LA SALLE BEGINS ANEW. [1681.<strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> this business, which I hope will turn outwell: for I have M. de Tonty, who is full <strong>of</strong> zeal;thirty Frenchmen, all good men, without reckoningsuch as I cannot trust; <strong>and</strong> more than a hundredIndians, some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m Shawanoes, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs fromNew Engl<strong>and</strong>, all <strong>of</strong> whom know how to use guns."It was October before he reached <strong>La</strong>ke Huron.Day after day <strong>and</strong> week after week <strong>the</strong> heavy-ladencanoes crept on along <strong>the</strong> lonely wilderness shores,by <strong>the</strong> monotonous ranks <strong>of</strong> bristling moss-beardedfirs ; lake <strong>and</strong> forest, forest <strong>and</strong> lake ; a dreary scenehaunted with yet more dreary memories, — disasters,sorrows, <strong>and</strong> deferred hopes; time, strength, <strong>and</strong>wealth spent in vain ; a ruinous past <strong>and</strong> a doubtfulfuture; sl<strong>and</strong>er, obloquy, <strong>and</strong> hate. With unmovedheart, <strong>the</strong> patient voyager held his course, <strong>and</strong>drew up his canoes at last on <strong>the</strong> beach at FortMiami.

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