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JOURNEYS OF
where the two gentlemen treated us with
all desirable hospitality, putting all at our
disposal. Whenever any affairs are to be
decided among these nations they never give
their resolution on the spot; they assemble
the chiefs and old men and deliberate on the
point in question. We had asked a periagua
and Indians to ascend the River Colbert,
and thence to push on to the Illinois by the
River Seignelay, offering to leave them our
horses, powder and lead. When the council
was held it was said that they would
grant us the periagua and four Indians, to
be selected one from each tribe, in token of
a more strict alliance. This was faithfully
executed, so that we dismissed our Cahinnio
with presents which perfectly satisfied them.
At last, after some time stay, we embarked
on the ist of August, 1687, on the
River Colbert, which we crossed the same
day in our periagua, forty feet long; but,
as the current is strong, we all landed to
make the rest of our journey on foot, having
left our horses and equipage at the
Akansa. There remained in the canoe only
the Sieur Cavelier, whose age, joined to the
hardships he had already undergone on the
way, did not permit him to accomplish on
foot the rest of our course (at least four
hundred leagues) to the Illinois. One Indian
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/286/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.