We will bring some experts who have done big disassembly jobs, to advise us. The La Salle shipwreck on the Texas coast has produced the skeleton of a Frenchman accompanied by a pewter porringer with his name scratched on it, among other wonderful items. The Frenchman's porringer had the name C.Berange scratched into it. While he is not mentioned in the Joutel journal, there is another interesting possibility. A man named Berange was a map maker with LaHarpe in l719.
Strange puzzles emerge from the bowels of archeological excavations.
The project is going great. Beautiful weather for a change. Smithsonian Magazine was there and plans to do a cover story on the project. National Geographic also working on a major story for late1997. French news media covering it as well.