sread, as Tonty's journey was in 1686. See "La Salle and the Discovery
of the Great West," 455, _note_. Iberville's lieutenant, Sugeres,
commanding the "Marin," gives the date correctly. _Journal de la Fregate
le Marin_, 1698, 1699 (Margry, iv.).

[293] _Journal du Voyage du Chevalier d'Iberville sur le Vaisseau du Roy
la Renommee en 1699_ (Margry, iv. 395).

[294] Gayarre, _Histoire de la Louisiane_ (1846), i. 69. Benard de la
Harpe, _Journal historique_ (1831), 20. Coxe says, in the preface to his
_Description of Carolana_ (1722), that "the present proprietor of
Carolana, my honour'd Father, ... was the author of this English voyage
to the Mississippi, having in the year 1698 equipp'd and fitted out Two
Ships for Discovery by Sea, and also for building a Fortification and
settling a Colony by land; there being in both vessels, besides Sailors
and Common Men, above Thirty English and French Volunteers." Coxe adds
that the expedition would have succeeded if one of the commanders had
not failed to do his duty.

[295] Gayarre, _Histoire de la Louisiane_ (1846), i. 69.

[296] _Memoire pour servir d'Instruction au Sieur d'Iberville_ (Margry,
iv. 348).

[297] _Journal du Voyage du Chevalier d'Iberville sur le Vaisseau du Roy
la Renommee_, 1699, 1700.

[298] _Memoire de la Junte de Guerre des Indes. Le Ministre de la Marine
au Duc d'Harcourt_ (Margry, iv. 553, 568).

[299] Iberville wrote in 1701 a long memorial, in which he tried to
convince the Spanish court that it was for the interest of Spain that
the French should form a barrier between her colonies and those of
England, which, he says, were about to seize the country as far as the
Mississippi and beyond it.

[300] _Nicolas de la Salle au Ministre, 7 Septembre, 1706._

[301] "Il est clair que M. de Bienville n'a pas les qualites necessaires
pour bien gouverner la colonie." Gayarre found this curious letter in
the Archives de la Marine.

[302] _Depeche de Bienville, 12 Octobre, 1708._

[303] D'Artaguette in Gayarre, _Histoire de la Louisiane_. This valuable
work consists of a series of documents, connected by a thread of
narrative.

[304] _La Mothe-Cadillac au Ministre_, in Gayarre, i. 104, 105.

[305] "Que si M. de Lamothe-Cadillac lui portoit tant d'animositie,
c'etoit a cause du refus qu'il avoit fait d'epouser sa
fille."--_Bienville in Gayarre_, i. 116.

[306] _Memoire du Cure de la Vente, 1714._

[307] The earlier cargoes of girls seem to have bee