. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . lish garrisons at Manchac and Natchez, where all passingboats were rigidly overhauled; and the bare suspicion tliat anyparty was friendly to the American cause, was very certain tosubject them to seizure and imprisonment, with the confiscationof all their property. iVfter leaving the river, their course leadthem about sixty miles to Opclousas, and thence about onehundred and twenty miles to Natchitoches on Red River, wliere[they] arrived on the first of February, 1779. Their journey hadbeen much impeded by almost continual rain, and conse
. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . lish garrisons at Manchac and Natchez, where all passingboats were rigidly overhauled; and the bare suspicion tliat anyparty was friendly to the American cause, was very certain tosubject them to seizure and imprisonment, with the confiscationof all their property. iVfter leaving the river, their course leadthem about sixty miles to Opclousas, and thence about onehundred and twenty miles to Natchitoches on Red River, wliere[they] arrived on the first of February, 1779. Their journey hadbeen much impeded by almost continual rain, and consequenthigh waters, which compelled them to tarry a couple of weeksat Natchitoches. Resuming their toilsome travels they passedthrougli the wilderness—partly by canoe, and partly by land—in a north-eastern direction, over two hundred miles, and, atlength, after great hazard and fatigue reached their point of dcs- * Note on orii^inal manuscript: Hoists to Ilcnry, Oct. 1. 1778—L. C. D. Note on original nianuscripl: lUilIcrs Kcnluckij, 103—L. C. 86 WISCONSIN HISTORICSlL COLLECTIONS tination. Over this route some goods were conveyed, whichseem to have been brought from New Orleans.^ From xVrkansas Post, Rogers and party descended the ArkansasRiver to the Mississippi, and thence, in the slow and tediousmanner of that day, they proceeded up the latter stream to , Where the goods, for which they had orders, were obtainedfrom Mons. Eugene Pouree, alias Beausoliel, who had conveyedthem from New Orleans, under cover, doubtless, of his being awell-known enterprising French trader of Upper Louisiana.^Here Joseph Francis Perrault,^ a merchant of St. Louis, who hadfurnished Colonel Clark, for the supply of his troops in theIllinois country, goods to the amount of $11,814, for which hehad received drafts on the State of Virginia, now took passagewith Colonel Rogers, in order to collect these drafts, in tobacco * Note on original manuscript: Rogers to Henry, Oct. 4, 1778. Rog
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