Note 27 — Chapter I

Charlevoix says the expedition was composed of the “François” and “Renommée,” and sailed October 17. According to Penicaut the vessels were the “Marin” and “Renommée.” The Journal historique states that they sailed from Rochefort September 24. This work is generally accurate. Perhaps there was some authority for that date. The vessels had come down from Rochefort to the anchorage at Rochelle some time before this, and the date may represent the time of sailing from Rochelle. Margry (iv. 213) in a syllabus of the contents of the Journal of Marin, which he evidently regarded as a part of the original document, gives the date of that event as September 5. In the same volume (p. 84) there is a despatch from the Minister to Du Guay, dated October (?) 16, in which he says that “he awaits with impatience the news of Iberville’s sailing, and fears that he may be detained at Rochelle by the equinoctial storms.”