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LA SALLE
cottage and others took care of our baggage,
which was restored to us very honestly.
We found the elders waiting for us;
a great fire was kindled to dry us and the
cottage was lighted by several burning
reeds, which they make use of instead of
flambeaux, after which we were served as
in other places.
The 3Ist we received visits from the elders.
Their discourse ran upon the war they
designed to make, thinking to engage us in
it, and we returned the same answer as we
had done to the others, that we should soon
return with all things we stood in need of.
We asked a man of them, which was granted,
and the day ended in feasting.
We would willingly have set out the first
of August, but the chief came and told us
it could not be, bcause the women had not
pounded our corn, which, however, was
done; but they made use of that pretense to
oblige us to stay, and to have leisure to give
us some diversion, after their manner. Accordingly
about ten in the morning the warriors
and youth came together to dance.
They were dressed after their best manner,
some of them wearing plumes of several
colors, wherewith they adorn their heads;
others, instead of feathers, had two bullocks'
horns, and were all besmeared with clay, or
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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/m1/210/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .