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JOURNEYS OF
from our habitation. The I3th we crossed
a plain, about two leagues over, where we
saw several herds of beeves and flocks of
goats, turkeys, bustards and other sorts of
wild fowl. We met with marshy lands,
which tired our horses, and came to a wood
that terminates the plain, across which runs
a branch of a river full of reeds, by M. de
la Salle called the Princess River. That
branch joins the other, and they both fell
together into the Bay of St. Louis.
We killed, five beeves at the entrance into
the wood, forded the river and encamped
half a league beyond it, whence M. de la
Salle sent men with the horses to bring the
flesh of the bullocks we had killed; the hides
of them, which served to cover us, being
very useful against a violent shower of rain
that fell.
The I4th, the rain ceasing, we traveled
over another spacious plain, where there is
a multitude of beeves and wild fowl. We
saw several tracks, leading every way, made
by the bullocks, of which we saw several
herds, some moving on hastily and others
running outright, which made us suppose
they were driven by the natives. In short,
having halted to help up one of our horses
that had fallen, we saw an Indian following
them very close. M. de la Salle caused a
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6103/m1/107/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .