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LA SALLE
having crossed a large plain, came to the
bank of a fine river, called La Maligne, or
the Mischievous, because in M. de la Salle's
former journey an alligator devoured one of
his servants, who was swimming over it.
This river is as wide as the Seine at Rouen,
seems to be very navigable and has a very
pleasant country about it. We encamped
in a little wood adjoining it and barked the
aspen trees to hut.
Our hunters killed beeves, wild goats, turkeys
and other wild fowl, and, among the
rest, some creatures as big as an indifferent
cat, very like a rat, having a bag under their
throat, in which they carry their young.
They feed upon nuts and acorns, are very
fat, and their flesh is much like pig.
Hard by there we found a place where M.
de la Salle, in his former journey, had hid
some parcels of strings of beads in the
trunks of trees, and we rested there till the
8th of the month. During that time no day
Passed without seeing some of the natives,
who sometimes spent the whole day with
us, and said they were of several nations.
We made them smoke, and always gave
them some small presents. They admired
that after we had written down some words
they spoke to us we repeated them, looking
on the paper.
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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/m1/118/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .