Betty B.
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871 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They built their campfires in the neighboring forests, and at daylight, embarking anew on the dark and mighty stream, drifted swiftly down toward unknown destinies.
They passed a deserted town of the Tamaroas, saw three days after the mouth of the Ohio, and gliding by the wastes of bordering swamp, landed on the twenty fourth of february near the third Chickasaw Bluffs.
They encamped and the hunters went out for game.
All returned except Pierre Prudholm.
And as the others had seen fresh tracks of Indians, La Salle feared that he was killed.
While some of his followers built a small stockade fort on a high bluff by the river, others ranged the woods in pursuit of the missing hunter.
After six days of ceaseless and fruitless search they met two Chickasaw Indians in the forest.
And through them La Salle sent presents and peace messages to that warlike people.
whose villages were a few days' journey distance.
Several days later Prutholm was found and brought into the camp half dead.
He had lost his way while hunting, and to console him for his woes, La Salle christened the newly built fort with his name and left him with a few others in charge of it.
Again they embarked, and with every stage of their adventurous progress the mystery of this vast new world was more and more unveiled.
More and more they entered the realms of spring.
The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flowers betoken the reviving life of nature.
For several days more they followed the writhings of the great river and
On its tortuous course through wastes of swamp and cane break
Till on the thirteenth of march they found themselves wrapped in a thick fog.
Neither shore was visible, but they heard on the right the booming of an Indian drum and the shrill outcries of the war dance.
La Salle at once crossed to the opposite side, where in less than an hour his men threw up a rude fort of fell trees.
Meanwhile the fog cleared, and from the farther bank the astonished Indians saw the strange visitors at their work.
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