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JOURNEYS OF
turkeys, bustards, swans, teal and other
game.
The trees produce plenty of fruit, and
very good, as peaches, plums, mulberries,
grapes and walnuts. They have a sort of
fruit they call piaguimina, not unlike our
medlars, but much better and more delicious.
Such as live near the rivers, as that
house is, do not want for fish of all sorts,
and they have Indian wheat, whereof they
make good bread. There are also fine plains
diversified with several sorts of trees, as I
have said before.
The nation of the Accanceas consists of
four villages. The first is called Otsotchove,
near which we were; the second Toriman,
both of them seated on the river; the third
Tonginga, and the fourth Cappa, on the
bank of the Mississippi. These villages are
built after a different manner from the
others we had seen before in this point, that
the cottages, which are alike as to their materials
and rounding at the top, are long,
and covered with the bark of trees, and so
very large that several of them can hold
two hundred persons, belonging to several
families.
The people are not so neat as the Cenis
or the Assonis in their houses, for some of
them lie on the ground, without anything
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Second volume of biographical accounts related to the explorations of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in North America including memoirs, accounts, and narratives of his discovery and exploration down the Mississippi River.
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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/m1/203/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .