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JOURNEYS OF
the skins laid on it in honor of the pipe, the
singing as loud as they could roar, both by
men and women, and all the other ceremonies
were observed, as I have mentioned
them before; so that M. Cavelier being
weary of them, he caused the chief to be
told that he was out of order, and desired
his nephew might be put in his place, which
was done accordingly, and they spent the
whole night in singing. In the mornfng
they performed some other ceremonies not
worth relating.
The solemnity being ended by every man's
smoking of the pipe, the Indians took it,
with some bullocks' hides, and goats' and
otters' skins, and a collar made of shells, all
which they carried to our house, and we
gave them a firelock, two axes, six knives,
one hundred charges of powder, as much
ball, and some strings of beads for their
wives. The chief having given notice of
our coming to the other villages, their deputies
came to see us; we entertained them
in the house and proposed to them our designs,
as had been done to the chief. They
stood considering a while, then held a sort
of consultation among themselves, which
held not long without talking, and then
agreed to grant us what we asked, which
was a canoe and a man of each village to
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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/m1/205/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .