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Show 62 .....•.. Vl > ....... v ..c:: .,.J 4-< 0 . . "SNV ~ VI1V ·y . Vl ;;..... -~ p... ~ ~ S. ALIA TANS, Snake Indians. These are· a very numerous and well disposed people, inhabiting a woody and mountainous country; they are divided into three large tribes, who wander at a considerable distance from each other; and are called by themselves So-so-na, So-soJbu-bar, and I-a-kar; these are again subdivided into smaller tho' independent bands, the names of which I have not yet learnt; they raise a nutnber of horses and n1ules which they trade with the Cron Indians, or are stolen by the nations on the east of them. They maintain a partial trade with the Spaniards, from whom they obtain many articles of cloathing and ironmongery, but _no warlike implements. OJ' tlze West. These people also inhabit a mountainous country, and sometimes venture in the plains east of the Rocky mountains, about the head of the Arkansas river. They have more intercourse with the Spaniards of New Mexico, than the Snake Indians. 'I'hey are said to be very numerous and warlike, but are badly armed. The Spaniards fear these people, and therefore take the precaution not to furnish them with any \'varlike implements. In their present unarmed state, they frequently commit hostilities on the Spaniards. They rai~e a great many horses. La Playes. These principally inhabit the rich plains from the head of the .A.rkansas, embracing the heads of Red river; and extending with the Inountains and high lands eastwardly as far as it is known towards the g·ulph of Mexico. They possess no fire arms, but are warlike and brave. 'l'hey arc, as well as the other Aliatans, a wandering people. Their country abounds in wild horses, besides great numbers which they raise themselves. These people, and the \Vest Aliatans, might be induced to trade with us on the upper part of the Arkansas river. I do not believe tl~at any of the Aliatans claitn a country within any particular limits . , . |
