The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 327 of 330
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LA SALLE
go to the Penoy, where we arrived on the
29th.
On the 30th we went to sleep at the village
of Saffory [Assonis?], where we were
received with the same friendship as in the
others. We remained there one day, and
we had the pleasure of seeing an alligator
twelve feet long captured. The Indians
employed a hook made of a buffalo bone
tied to the end of a cord, studded with small
bones, so that he cannot bite through, and
they use no bait but a piece of meat on the
hook. The Indians, who wished to amuse
themselves with it, put out its eyes and led
it into a prairie, after tying its head to its
tail and tying it around the body with three
different cords, made of bark of trees, and
passed around in slip-knots, and after tormenting
it in various ways for full four
hours they turned it belly up and confined
it from head to tail by eight stakes, planted
so that the animal could not move in any
direction. In this condition they flayed him,
and then gave him liberty to run, to have
the pleasure of tormenting him more. This
sport lasted all day, and ended with the
death of this frightful beast, which they
killed and gave to their dogs. We saw
many skins of this animal thrown about,
which made us infer that there were many
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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/m1/327/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.