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In the black days of late November, La Salle, Tonty, and D'Autray, and Abenakis and Mohegan allies--eighteen in all, with wives of ten Indians who La Salle did not wish to take, and twenty-three Frenchmen, among whom were Friar Membré and Pierre Prudhomme--making fifty-four altogether--started from Fort St. Louis for the Mississippi. La Salle had abandoned building a vessel, and they made the journey in canoes. Yet with canoes he could not carry enough furs and produce to repay his creditors.
At the beginning of the journey Tonty said to him: "It is in my bones that this time you will succeed. I am only sorry we have not a ship. It would impress the natives, it would carry furs and goods--but to impress the natives is the chief thing."