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Alabama Indians killed French who tried to trade with them

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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Penicaut mentions the arrival of the chiefs of several nations of Indians at the Mobile fort in 1702 to sing the calumet, and among them those of "the Mobiliens, the Thomez, and the people of the Forks [the Naniaba]."2 
(Swanton)
The following further translation from Penicaut contains some interesting information regarding the tribes with which we are dealing:
"At this time five of our Frenchmen asked permission of M. de Bienville to go to trade with the Alibamons in order to have fowls or other provisions of which they had need. They took the occasion to leave with ten of these Alibamons, who were at our fort of Mobile and who wished to return. 
On the way [Mobile feasts]...
...Penicaut goes on to say that four of the five prospective traders were treacherously killed by Alabama Indians when close to their town, one barely escaping with his life, and that this was the cause of a war between the French and that tribe.1 La Harpe, a better authority than Penicaut, places this event in the year 1703.2 
(Swanton)