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LA SALLE 51
the edge of a grove where a spring bubbled up through
the sands, they lay asleep around the embers of their
fire, while the man on guard listened to the deep
breathing of the slumbering horses and the howling of
the wolves that saluted the rising moon as it flooded
the waste of prairie with its pale, mystic light."
It was the middle of March, and the party had proceeded
as far as the Neches River, in what is now east
Texas, when a quarrel among the men, which had been
brewing all along, broke out into open violence.
Duhaut and Liotot, the surgeon, hated La Salle and his
nephew, Moranget, and had sworn vengeance against
them. Duhaut, being a man of property in France, and
having lost everything by this expedition, charged La
Salle with being the cause of his ruin; Liotot charged
him with having caused the death of his brother. On
one of the former journeys this young man's strength
had failed and La Salle ordered him to return to the
fort. On the way back he was attacked and killed by
the Indians.
The party encamped near a spot where La Salle on
his preceding journey had cached-that is to say, hidden
in the ground or a hollowed tree a quantity of beans
and Indian corn. As provisions were getting scarce in
nech'-ez cash-ayd'
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Littlejohn, E. G., 1862-. Texas History Stories: Cabeza de Vaca and La Salle., periodical, 1901; Richmond, Virginia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14384/m1/51/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.