The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2 Page: 215 of 268
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JOURNEYS OF
we know not, and among them one shaped
like a middling pear, with stones in it as big
as large beans. When ripe it peels like a
peach; the taste is indifferent good, but
rather of the sweetest.
The 27th, having discovered a herd of
beeves, we went ashore to kill some; I shot
a heifer, which was very good meat; we put
aboard the best of it and held on our way
till the evening, when we encamped on an
island, where we observed an alteration in
the humor and behavior of our Indians.
This put us under some apprehension, and
the more for that he who was reckoned a
hermaphrodite told us they intended to leave
us, which obliged us to secure our arms and
double our watch during the night, for fear
they should forsake us.
With that jealousy we proceeded on our
journey the 28th and 29th, coasting along
the foot of an upright rock, about sixty or
eighty feet high, around which the river
glides. Held on the 30th and 3ist, and the
ist of September passed by the mouth of a
river called Missouri, whose water is always
thick, and to which our Indians did not for}get
to offer sacrifice.
The 2d we arrived at the place where the
figure is of the pretended monster spoken of
by Father Marquet. That monster consists
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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/m1/215/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .