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The Enterprise renewed.—Attempt to rescue Tonty.—Buffalo2.—A Frightful3 Discovery.—Iroquois Fury.—The Ruined Town.—A Night of Horror.—Traces of the Invaders4.—No News of Tonty.
ANOTHER EFFORT.
And now La Salle's work must be begun afresh. He had staked all, and all had seemingly been lost. In stern, relentless5 effort he had touched the limits of human endurance; and the harvest of his toil6 was disappointment, disaster, and impending7 ruin. The shattered fabric8 of his enterprise was prostrate9 in the dust. His friends desponded; his foes10 were blatant11 and exultant12. Did he bend before the storm? No human eye could pierce the depths of his reserved and haughty13 nature; but the surface was calm, and no sign betrayed a shaken resolve or an altered purpose. Where weaker men would have abandoned all in despairing apathy14, he turned anew to his work with the same vigor15 and the same apparent confidence as if borne on the full tide of success.
His best hope was in Tonty. Could that brave and true-hearted officer and the three or four faithful [Pg 203] men who had remained with him make good their foothold on the Illinois, and save from destruction the vessel17 on the stocks and the forge and tools so laboriously18 carried thither19, then a basis was left on which the ruined enterprise might be built up once more. There was no time to lose. Tonty must be succored21 soon, or succor20 would come too late. La Salle had already provided the necessary material, and a few days sufficed to complete his preparations. On the tenth of August he embarked22 again for the Illinois. With him went his lieutenant23 La Forest, who held of him in fief an island, then called Belle24 Isle25, opposite Fort Frontenac.[172] A surgeon, ship-carpenters, joiners, masons, soldiers, voyageurs and laborers26 completed his company, twenty-five men in all, with everything needful for the outfit27 of the vessel.
His route, though difficult, was not so long as that which he had followed the year before. He ascended28 the river Humber; crossed to Lake Simcoe, and thence descended30 the Severn to the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron; followed its eastern shore, coasted the Manitoulin Islands, and at length reached Michilimackinac. Here, as usual, all was hostile; and he had great difficulty in inducing the Indians, who had been excited against him, to sell him provisions. Anxious to reach his destination, he pushed forward with twelve men, leaving La Forest to bring on the [Pg 204] rest. On the fourth of November[173] he reached the ruined fort at the mouth of the St. Joseph, and left five of his party, with the heavy stores, to wait till La Forest should come up, while he himself hastened forward with six Frenchmen and an Indian. A deep anxiety possessed31 him. The rumor32, current for months past, that the Iroquois, bent33 on destroying the Illinois, were on the point of invading their country had constantly gained strength. Here was a new disaster, which, if realized, might involve him and his enterprise in irretrievable wreck34.
He ascended the St. Joseph, crossed the portage to the Kankakee, and followed its course downward till it joined the northern branch of the Illinois. He had heard nothing of Tonty on the way, and neither here nor elsewhere could he discover the smallest sign of the passage of white men. His friend, therefore, if alive, was probably still at his post; and he pursued his course with a mind lightened, in some small measure, of its load of anxiety.
BUFFALO.
When last he had passed here, all was solitude35; but now the scene was changed. The boundless36 waste was thronged37 with life. He beheld38 that wondrous39 spectacle, still to be seen at times on the plains of the remotest West, and the memory of which can quicken the pulse and stir the blood after [Pg 205] the lapse40 of years: far and near, the prairie was alive with buffalo; now like black specks41 dotting the distant swells42; now trampling43 by in ponderous44 columns, or filing in long lines, morning, noon, and night, to drink at the river,—wading, plunging45, and snorting in the water; climbing the muddy shores, and staring with wild eyes at the passing canoes. It was an opportunity not to be lost. The party landed, and encamped for a hunt. Sometimes they hid under the shelving bank, and shot them as they came to drink; sometimes, flat on their faces, they dragged themselves through the long dead grass, till the savage46 bulls, guardians47 of the herd48, ceased their grazing, raised their huge heads, and glared through tangled49 hair at the dangerous intruders. The hunt was successful. In three days the hunters killed twelve buffalo, besides deer, geese, and swans. They cut the meat into thin flakes50, and dried it in the sun or in the smoke of their fires. The men were in high spirits,—delighting in the sport, and rejoicing in the prospect51 of relieving Tonty and his hungry followers52 with a plentiful53 supply.
They embarked again, and soon approached the great town of the Illinois. The buffalo were far behind; and once more the canoes glided54 on their way through a voiceless solitude. No hunters were seen; no saluting55 whoop56 greeted their ears. They passed the cliff afterwards called the Rock of St. Louis, where La Salle had ordered Tonty to build his stronghold; but as he scanned its lofty top he [Pg 206] saw no palisades, no cabins, no sign of human hand, and still its primeval crest57 of forests overhung the gliding58 river. Now the meadow opened before them where the great town had stood. They gazed, astonished and confounded: all was desolation. The town had vanished, and the meadow was black with fire. They plied59 their paddles, hastened to the spot, landed; and as they looked around their cheeks grew white, and the blood was frozen in their veins60.
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
Before them lay a plain once swarming61 with wild human life and covered with Indian dwellings62, now a waste of devastation63 and death, strewn with heaps of ashes, and bristling64 with the charred65 poles and stakes which had formed the framework of the lodges66. At the points of most of them were stuck human skulls67, half picked by birds of prey68.[174] Near at hand was the burial-ground of the village. The travellers sickened with horror as they entered its revolting precincts. Wolves in multitudes fled at their approach; while clouds of crows or buzzards, rising from the hideous69 repast, wheeled above their heads, or settled on the naked branches of the neighboring forest. Every grave had been rifled, and the bodies flung down from the scaffolds where, after the Illinois custom, many of them had been placed. The field was strewn with broken bones and torn and [Pg 207] mangled70 corpses71. A hyena72 warfare73 had been waged against the dead. La Salle knew the handiwork of the Iroquois. The threatened blow had fallen, and the wolfish hordes74 of the five cantons had fleshed their rabid fangs75 in a new victim.[175]
Not far distant, the conquerors had made a rude fort of trunks, boughs76, and roots of trees laid together to form a circular enclosure; and this, too, was garnished77 with skulls, stuck on the broken branches and protruding78 sticks. The caches, or subterranean79 store-houses of the villagers, had been broken open and the contents scattered80. The cornfields were laid waste, and much of the corn thrown into heaps and half burned. As La Salle surveyed this scene of havoc81, one thought engrossed82 him: where were Tonty and his men? He searched the Iroquois fort: there were abundant traces of its savage occupants, and, among them, a few fragments of French clothing. [Pg 208] He examined the skulls; but the hair, portions of which clung to nearly all of them, was in every case that of an Indian. Evening came on before he had finished the search. The sun set, and the wilderness83 sank to its savage rest. Night and silence brooded over the waste, where, far as the raven84 could wing his flight, stretched the dark domain85 of solitude and horror.
Yet there was no silence at the spot where La Salle and his companions made their bivouac. The howling of the wolves filled the air with fierce and dreary86 dissonance. More dangerous foes were not far off, for before nightfall they had seen fresh Indian tracks; "but, as it was very cold," says La Salle, "this did not prevent us from making a fire and lying down by it, each of us keeping watch in turn. I spent the night in a distress87 which you can imagine better than I can write it; and I did not sleep a moment with trying to make up my mind as to what I ought to do. My ignorance as to the position of those I was looking after, and my uncertainty88 as to what would become of the men who were to follow me with La Forest if they arrived at the ruined village and did not find me there, made me apprehend89 every sort of trouble and disaster. At last, I decided90 to keep on my way down the river, leaving some of my men behind in charge of the goods, which it was not only useless but dangerous to carry with me, because we should be forced to abandon them when the winter fairly set in, which would be very soon."
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FEARS FOR TONTY.
This resolution was due to a discovery he had made the evening before, which offered, as he thought, a possible clew to the fate of Tonty and the men with him. He thus describes it: "Near the garden of the Indians, which was on the meadows, a league from the village and not far from the river, I found six pointed91 stakes set in the ground and painted red. On each of them was the figure of a man with bandaged eyes, drawn92 in black. As the savages93 often set stakes of this sort where they have killed people, I thought, by their number and position, that when the Iroquois came, the Illinois, finding our men alone in the hut near their garden, had either killed them or made them prisoners. And I was confirmed in this, because, seeing no signs of a battle, I supposed that on hearing of the approach of the Iroquois, the old men and other non-combatants had fled, and that the young warriors94 had remained behind to cover their flight, and afterwards followed, taking the French with them; while the Iroquois, finding nobody to kill, had vented95 their fury on the corpses in the graveyard96."
Uncertain as was the basis of this conjecture97, and feeble as was the hope it afforded, it determined98 him to push forward, in order to learn more. When daylight returned, he told his purpose to his followers, and directed three of them to await his return near the ruined village. They were to hide themselves on an island, conceal99 their fire at night, make no smoke by day, fire no guns, and keep a close [Pg 210] watch. Should the rest of the party arrive, they, too, were to wait with similar precautions. The baggage was placed in a hollow of the rocks, at a place difficult of access; and, these arrangements made, La Salle set out on his perilous100 journey with the four remaining men, Dautray, Hunaut, You, and the Indian. Each was armed with two guns, a pistol, and a sword; and a number of hatchets101 and other goods were placed in the canoe, as presents for Indians whom they might meet.
Several leagues below the village they found, on their right hand close to the river, a sort of island, made inaccessible102 by the marshes103 and water which surrounded it. Here the flying Illinois had sought refuge with their women and children, and the place was full of their deserted104 huts. On the left bank, exactly opposite, was an abandoned camp of the Iroquois. On the level meadow stood a hundred and thirteen huts, and on the forest trees which covered the hills behind were carved the totems, or insignia, of the chiefs, together with marks to show the number of followers which each had led to the war. La Salle counted five hundred and eighty-two warriors. He found marks, too, for the Illinois killed or captured, but none to indicate that any of the Frenchmen had shared their fate.
SEARCH FOR TONTY.
As they descended the river, they passed, on the same day, six abandoned camps of the Illinois; and opposite to each was a camp of the invaders. The former, it was clear, had retreated in a body; while [Pg 211] the Iroquois had followed their march, day by day, along the other bank. La Salle and his men pushed rapidly onward105, passed Peoria Lake, and soon reached Fort Crèvec?ur, which they found, as they expected, demolished106 by the deserters. The vessel on the stocks was still left entire, though the Iroquois had found means to draw out the iron nails and spikes107. On one of the planks108 were written the words: "Nous sommes tous sauvages: ce 15, 1680,"—the work, no doubt, of the knaves109 who had pillaged110 and destroyed the fort.
La Salle and his companions hastened on, and during the following day passed four opposing camps of the savage armies. The silence of death now reigned111 along the deserted river, whose lonely borders, wrapped deep in forests, seemed lifeless as the grave. As they drew near the mouth of the stream they saw a meadow on their right, and on its farthest verge112 several human figures, erect113, yet motionless. They landed, and cautiously examined the place. The long grass was trampled114 down, and all around were strewn the relics115 of the hideous orgies which formed the ordinary sequel of an Iroquois victory. The figures they had seen were the half-consumed bodies of women, still bound to the stakes where they had been tortured. Other sights there were, too revolting for record.[176] All the remains116 were those [Pg 212] of women and children. The men, it seemed, had fled, and left them to their fate.
Here, again, La Salle sought long and anxiously, without finding the smallest sign that could indicate the presence of Frenchmen. Once more descending117 the river, they soon reached its mouth. Before them, a broad eddying118 current rolled swiftly on its way; and La Salle beheld the Mississippi,—the object of his day-dreams, the destined119 avenue of his ambition and his hopes. It was no time for reflections. The moment was too engrossing120, too heavily charged with anxieties and cares. From a rock on the shore, he saw a tree stretched forward above the stream; and stripping off its bark to make it more conspicuous121, he hung upon it a board on which he had drawn the figures of himself and his men, seated in their canoe, and bearing a pipe of peace. To this he tied a letter for Tonty, informing him that he had returned up the river to the ruined village.
His four men had behaved admirably throughout, and they now offered to continue the journey if he saw fit, and follow him to the sea; but he thought it useless to go farther, and was unwilling122 to abandon the three men whom he had ordered to await his return. Accordingly, they retraced123 their course, and, paddling at times both day and night, urged their canoe so swiftly that they reached the village in the incredibly short space of four days.[177]
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THE COMET.
The sky was clear, and as night came on the travellers saw a prodigious124 comet blazing above this scene of desolation. On that night, it was chilling with a superstitious125 awe126 the hamlets of New England and the gilded127 chambers128 of Versailles; but it is characteristic of La Salle, that, beset129 as he was with perils130 and surrounded with ghastly images of death, he coolly notes down the phenomenon, not as a portentous132 messenger of war and woe133, but rather as an object of scientific curiosity.[178]
He found his three men safely ensconced upon their island, where they were anxiously looking for his return. After collecting a store of half-burnt corn from the ravaged134 granaries of the Illinois, the whole party began to ascend29 the river, and on the sixth of January reached the junction135 of the Kankakee with the northern branch. On their way downward they had descended the former stream; they now chose the latter, and soon discovered, by the margin136 [Pg 214] of the water, a rude cabin of bark. La Salle landed and examined the spot, when an object met his eye which cheered him with a bright gleam of hope. It was but a piece of wood; but the wood had been cut with a saw. Tonty and his party, then, had passed this way, escaping from the carnage behind them. Unhappily, they had left no token of their passage at the fork of the two streams; and thus La Salle, on his voyage downward, had believed them to be still on the river below.
With rekindled137 hope, the travellers pursued their journey, leaving their canoes, and making their way overland towards the fort on the St. Joseph.
"Snow fell in extraordinary quantities all day," writes La Salle, "and it kept on falling for nineteen days in succession, with cold so severe that I never knew so hard a winter, even in Canada. We were obliged to cross forty leagues of open country, where we could hardly find wood to warm ourselves at evening, and could get no bark whatever to make a hut, so that we had to spend the night exposed to the furious winds which blow over these plains. I never suffered so much from cold, or had more trouble in getting forward; for the snow was so light, resting suspended as it were among the tall grass, that we could not use snow-shoes. Sometimes it was waist deep; and as I walked before my men, as usual, to encourage them by breaking the path, I often had much ado, though I am rather tall, to lift my legs above the [Pg 215] drifts, through which I pushed by the weight of my body."
FORT MIAMI.
At length they reached their goal, and found shelter and safety within the walls of Fort Miami. Here was the party left in charge of La Forest; but, to his surprise and grief, La Salle heard no tidings of Tonty. He found some amends138 for the disappointment in the fidelity139 and zeal140 of La Forest's men, who had restored the fort, cleared ground for planting, and even sawed the planks and timber for a new vessel on the lake.
And now, while La Salle rests at Fort Miami, let us trace the adventures which befell Tonty and his followers, after their chief's departure from Fort Crèvec?ur.
FOOTNOTES:
[172] Robert Cavelier, Sr. de la Salle, à Fran?ois Daupin, Sr. de la Forest, 10 Juin, 1679.
[173] This date is from the Relation. Membré says the twenty-eighth; but he is wrong, by his own showing, as he says that the party reached the Illinois village on the first of December, which would be an impossibility.
[174] "Il ne restoit que quelques bouts141 de perches142 brulées qui montroient quelle avoit été l'étendue du village, et sur la plupart desquelles il y avoit des têtes de morts plantées et mangées des corbeaux."—Relation des Découvertes du Sr. de la Salle.
[175] "Beaucoup de carcasses à demi rongées par16 les loups, les sépulchres démolis, les os tirés de leurs fosses et épars par la campagne; ... enfin les loups et les corbeaux augmentoient encore par leurs hurlemens et par leurs cris l'horreur de ce spectacle."—Relation des Découvertes du Sr. de la Salle.
The above may seem exaggerated; but it accords perfectly143 with what is well established concerning the ferocious144 character of the Iroquois and the nature of their warfare. Many other tribes have frequently made war upon the dead. I have myself known an instance in which five corpses of Sioux Indians placed in trees, after the practice of the Western bands of that people, were thrown down and kicked into fragments by a war party of the Crows, who then held the muzzles145 of their guns against the skulls, and blew them to pieces. This happened near the head of the Platte, in the summer of 1846. Yet the Crows are much less ferocious than were the Iroquois in La Salle's time.
[176] "On ne s?auroit exprimer la rage de ces furieux ni les tourmens qu'ils avoient fait souffrir aux misérables Tamaroa [a tribe of the Illinois]. Il y en avoit encore dans des chaudières qu'ils avoient laissées pleines sur les feux, qui depuis s'étoient éteints," etc., etc.—Relation des Découvertes.
[177] The distance is about two hundred and fifty miles. The letters of La Salle, as well as the official narrative146 compiled from them, say that they left the village on the second of December, and returned to it on the eleventh, having left the mouth of the river on the seventh.
[178] This was the "Great Comet of 1680." Dr. B. A. Gould writes me: "It appeared in December, 1680, and was visible until the latter part of February, 1681, being especially brilliant in January." It was said to be the largest ever seen. By observations upon it, Newton demonstrated the regular revolutions of comets around the sun. "No comet," it is said, "has threatened the earth with a nearer approach than that of 1680." (Winthrop on Comets, Lecture II. p. 44.) Increase Mather, in his Discourse147 concerning Comets, printed at Boston in 1683, says of this one: "Its appearance was very terrible; the Blaze ascended above 60 Degrees almost to its Zenith." Mather thought it fraught148 with terrific portent131 to the nations of the earth.
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