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JOURNEYS OF
were surrounded and taken by thirty or
forty warriors of the village where we were,
who carried them there without binding
them; that the whole nation, and even their
allies, had greatly honored them and held
them for something more than men on account
of the power of their guns; that they
wondered to see them kill a bison a hundred
paces off, and several turkeys at a single
shot, but that when their ammunition failed
these people pressed them to make more
and ridiculed them because they had not the
secret of making it. They also told us that
they had married in this village, and that
they had no difficulty in learning the language.
They then took us to a large cabin,
where we were conveniently lodged.
It was from these three Indians that we
learned that we were only forty leagues
from the sea; that the Indians among whom
we were made war on others who had intercourse
with the Spaniards, distant about one
hundred and thirty leagues from the sea;
that there was a river [30] leagues from us
more beautiful than the Mississipy,lx and
two others, fifteen or twenty leagues, in
which gold was found in large grains and in
dust; that the Indians used it only to make
collars and bracelets, but that they valued it
1 30 L. They meant the Rio Bravo.
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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/m1/310/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.