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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Some of the French advanced to the edge of the water and beckoned them to come over.
Several of them approached in a wooden canoe to within the distance of a gunshot.
La Salle displayed the Calumet and sent a Frenchman to meet them.
He was well received, and the friendly mood of the Indians now being apparent, the whole party crossed the river.
On landing they found themselves at a town of the Kappa Band of the Arkansas.
A people dwelling near the mouth of the river which bears their name.
The whole village, writes Membray to his superior, came down to the shore to meet us, except the women who had run off.
I cannot tell you the civility and kindness we received from these barbarians, who brought us poles to make huts, supplied us with firewood during the three days we were among them, and took turns in feasting us.
We did not lose the value of a pin while we were among them.
After touching at several other towns of this people, the voyagers resumed their course, guided by two of the Arkansas, past the sites since become historic, of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf.
And about three hundred miles below the Arkansas stopped by the edge of a swamp on the western side of the river.
Here, as their two guides told them, the
was the path to the great town of Tensus.
Tanti and Membre were sent to visit it.
They and their men shouldered their birch canoe through the swamp and launched it on a lake which had once formed a portion of the channel of the river.
In two hours they reached the town, and Tanti gazed at it with astonishment.
He had seen nothing like it in America.
Large, square dwellings built of sun baked mud mixed with straw.
Arched over with a dome shaped roof of canes and placed in regular order around an open area.
Two of them were larger and better than the rest, but
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