The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 499
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La Salle in Texas
(3) The site of Le Boucon, the French slaughter house, was
on Menefee Bayou about a mile north of Fort St. Louis.
(4) La Salle's Princess River was the present Sandy Creek
and the lower portions of the Navidad and Lavaca rivers re-
spectively, from its source to its confluence with the waters of
Lavaca Bay.
(5) The upper portion of the Lavaca River was called First
Cane River.
(6) The upper portion of the Navidad River was called Sec-
ond Cane River.
(7) West Sandy Creek was the upper portion of La Salle's
Princess River.
(8) The original Riviere aux Boeufs was the present Lavaca
River.
(9) The Colorado River was La Salle's La Sablonniere River,
which he crossed on January 26, 1687.
(10) The French river, La Maligne, where La Salle recovered
beads from hollow trees and found the American o'possum was
the Brazos River.
(11) La Salle crossed the Brazos River, February 9, 1687,
at the present site of old San Felipe de Austin.
(12) The French discovered the sweet potato, the Indian
toquo, in the present western Montgomery County.
(13) They discovered the Teao Indians, a tribe of the Texas
Indians, where the present village of Dacus, in western Mont-
gomery County, now stands.
(14) La Salle's Misfortune River was the present Trinity.
(15) He crossed the Trinity River on Wyser Shoal, in north-
ern Walker County, March 6, 1687.
(16) The River of Canoes was the present Neches, which
was crossed on March 14, 1687.
(17) La Salle's last camp site was on the headwaters of
Redd's Bayou, southern Cherokee County.
(18) La Salle was killed on the east bank of Larrison Creek
in southern Cherokee County.
(19) The Angelina, the Attoyac, and the Sabine rivers were
called by La Salle the Cenis rivers.
(20) La Salle's Cenis Nation extended at least from the Teao
Village, western Montgomery County, Texas, to the Assony Vil-
lage, central De Soto Parish, Louisiana, a distance of about
two hundred miles.499
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