06/05/2026
It had been, for most, a fairly pleasant if uneventful voyage (forgetting its inauspicious beginnings). The seas had been unusually pacific, fortunate, in view of the fact that the Pélican had been shipping a good deal of water and was “exorbitantly overloaded” which caused a number of crewmen to be without a place to sleep. True, there had been some mild cases of seasickness. Alexandre Huvé had “paid his tribute to the ocean” on several occasions and the young girls, experiencing their first voyage at sea, were suffering bouts of nausea as well.
Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library of Alabama Classics) (p. 161). (Function). Kindle Edition.
