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LA SALLE
them to follow him, to return to their own
country; but they answered him that they
were not unnatural enough to abandon their
wives and children; that, moreover, being in
the most fertile, healthy and peaceful country
in the world, they would be
devoid of
sense to leave it and expose themselves to be
tomahawked by the Illinois or burnt by the
Iroquois on their way to another where the
winter was insufferably cold, the summer
without game, and ever in war, but that if
the French built or established any colony
in the Mississipy that they would approach
it, and that they would have the pleasure of
rendering them considerable services.
Towards the close of January we parted
from our honest Shawnees, who could not
accompany us to the Mississipy for fear
of being suspected of wishing to follow us,
but they induced ten or twelve warriors to
lead us. On the Ioth of March we descried
the River Mississipy,21 where we left some
men in a little redoubt of pickets, which
we made ourselves, and, retracing our steps,
we passed again through the village of our
Shawnees, where we were regaled as well
as these good people could regale us, and,
continuing our march, we reached St. Louis
O It is not at all probable that La Salle reached
the Mississippi. Cf. Joutel, Preface to 1714 Edition.
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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/m1/315/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.