The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 294 of 330
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JOURNEYS OF
which we made a mission till the spring of
1688.
The Sieur de Tonty arrived there at the
beginning of winter with several Frenchmen.
This made our stay much more agreeable,
as this brave gentleman was always
inseparably attached to the interests of the
Sieur de la Salle, whose lamentable fate we
concealed from him, it being our duty to
give the first news to the court.
He told us that at the same time that we
were seeking the River Mississippi by the
sea he had made a second voyage, descending
the river with some French and Indians
to the mouth,hoping to find us there;that he
remained there a week, visited all the remarkable
points, and remarked that there
was a fine port, with a beautiful entrance
and wide channel, and also places fit for
building forts, and not at all inundated, as
he had supposed when he descended the first
time with the Sieur de la Salle, adding that
the lower river is habitable and even inhabited
by Indian villages; that ships can ascend
the river a hundred leagues above the
gulf; that, besides the tribes which he had
discovered when descending the first time,
he had seen several others on the second, as
the Picheno, the Ozanbogus, the Tangibao,
the Otonnica, the Mausopelea, the Mouisa,
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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/m1/294/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.