Betty B.
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first heard Aug 2026
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With bows bent to defend their countrymen.
La Salle called out to Tanti to withdraw.
He obeyed, and the whole party encamped on the opposite bank.
Tanti offered to cross the river with a peace pipe and set out accordingly with a small party of men.
When he landed the Indians made signs of friendship by joining their hands, a proceeding by which Tanti, having but one hand, was somewhat embarrassed, but he directed his men to respond in his stead.
The Indians of this village were the Natchez, and their chief was brother of the great chief.
or son of the whole nation.
His town was several leagues distant, near the side of the city of Natchez, and thither the French repaired to visit him.
They saw what they had already seen among the tensas, a religious and political despotism.
A privileged caste descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire.
La Salle planted a large cross with the arms of France attached in the midst of the town.
while the inhabitants looked on with a satisfaction which they would hardly have displayed had they understood the meaning of the act.
And now they neared journey's end.
On the sixth of April the river divided itself into three broad channels.
La Salle followed that of the west and Daug that of the east, while Tonti took the middle passage.
As he drifted toward the turbid current between the low and marshy shores, the brackish water changed to brine.
and the breeze grew fresh with the salt breath of the sea.
Then the broad bosom of the great gulf opened on his sight, tossing its restless billows, limitless, voiceless, lonely as when born of chaos, without a sail, without a sign of life.
La Salle, in a canoe, coasted the marshy borders of the sea, and then the reunited parties assembled on a spot of dry ground on the
A short distance above the mouth of the river.
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