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Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations, 1000 AD to 1682, by Francis Whiting Halsey.
Section thirty one La Salle's Voyage to the Mouth of the Mississippi sixteen eighty two by Francis Parkman.
La Salle chose eighteen of his Indian allies, whom he added to the twenty three Frenchmen who remained with him, some of the rest having deserted, and others lagged behind.
The Indians insisted on taking their squaws with them.
These were ten in number, besides three children, and thus the expedition included fifty four persons, of whom some were useless, and others a burden.
On the twenty first of December, Tonti and Membray set out from Fort Miami with some of the party and six canoes, and crossed to the little river Chicago.
La Salle, with the rest of the men, joined them a few days later.
It was the dead of winter, and the streams were frozen.
They made sledges, placed on them the canoes, the baggage, and a disabled Frenchman, crossed from the Chicago to the northern branch of the Illinois, and filed in a long procession down its frozen course.
They reached the site of the great Illinois village, found it tenantless, and continued their journey, still dragging their canoes, till at length they reached open water below Lake Peoria.
La Salle had abandoned for a time his original plan of building a vessel for the navigation of the Mississippi.
Bitter experience had taught him the difficulty of the attempt.
and he resolved to trust to his canoes alone.
They embarked again, floating prosperously down between the leafless forests that flanked the tranquil river, till, on the sixth of February, they issued upon the majestic bosom of the Mississippi.
Here, for the time, their progress was stopped.
For the river was full of floating ice.
La South Indians too had lagged behind.
But within a week all had arrived and
The navigation was once more free, and they resumed their course.
Toward evening they saw on their right the mouth of a great river, and the clear current was invaded by the headlong torrent of the Missouri, opaque with mud.
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