A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . )i. country i6 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. PreliminaryPeriod 1492 TO1687 During his absence, his only remaining vessel, the Belle, disap-peared, and he returned to find his settlement cut off from allcommunication with the world, alone in a savage wilderness, andtwo thousand miles from the nearest French post on the IllinoisRiver. He at once determined to reach that post by land, as he. SiTh oi La Salles 1-\>ki. La Salle triesto reach theIllinois Returns toFort St. Louis knew that his old friend, De Tonti, was there. He le
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . )i. country i6 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. PreliminaryPeriod 1492 TO1687 During his absence, his only remaining vessel, the Belle, disap-peared, and he returned to find his settlement cut off from allcommunication with the world, alone in a savage wilderness, andtwo thousand miles from the nearest French post on the IllinoisRiver. He at once determined to reach that post by land, as he. SiTh oi La Salles 1-\>ki. La Salle triesto reach theIllinois Returns toFort St. Louis knew that his old friend, De Tonti, was there. He left thecolony at Fort St. Louis in charge of the faithful Joutel (zho-tel), who was the historian of the expedition, and in April,16S6, with twenty men, set out for Fort Crevecoeur, on the Illi-nois. The party travelled in a northeasterly direction, and, onthe tenth day, reached the Colorado River, having met someIndians on the way, mounted on horses and wearing boots andspurs, which showed that they had been trading with the Span-iards in Mexico and New Mexico. La Salles party had much diffi-culty in crossing the swollen streams which they encountered, twodays being consumed in getting across the Brazos, near where thetown of Columbia now stands. Continuing their journey, theywere kindly treated by the Indians whom they met, one of thesegiving La Salle a horse. When they reached the Neches(na-chez) River, La Salle was stricken with fever and lay
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