Note 69 — AN Historical Journal OF THE Late Monsieur de la Sale’s LAST VOYAGE INTO North America To Discover the River MISSISIPI. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The construction of this sentence, leaves us somewhat in doubt, as to whether the girl and the woman were not one and the same person. In the Fr. it reads “une fille, une femme blessée à la cuisse d’un coup de fusil, dont elle mourut”—a girl, a woman wounded in the thigh by a gun-shot, who died of the wound.” C. C. edit.