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Show , 80 their can1p, early in the morning; they defended themselves desperately for 6 hours, but were at length totally defeated by St. Dennie, and what of them that were not killed in battle, were drove into the lake, where the last of them perished, and the Natchez, as a nation, became extinct. The lake is now called by no other name than the Natchez lake. There are now retnaining of the Natchitoches, bnt 12 men and 19 women, who live in a vtllage about 25 miles by land above the town which bears their name, near a lake, called by the French Lac de Muire. Their original language is the san1e a~ the Yattassee, but speak Caddo, and most of the1n French. The French inhabitants have great respect for this nation, and a number of very decent fan1ilies have a mixture of their blood in them. They claim but a small tract of land, on which they live, and I am informed, have the same rights to it from government, that other inhabitants in thPir neighborhood have. 'They are gradually wasting away ; the small pox ha5 been their great destroyer. They still preserve their Indian dress and habits; raise corn and those vegetables common in their neighborhood. BOLUXAS, are emigrants fron1 near Pensacola. They came to Red River about 42 years ago, with some French families, who left that country about the time Pensacola was taken possession of by the English. They were then a considerable numerous tribe, and have generally embraced the Roman Catholic religion, and were ever highly esteemed bv the French. They settled first at A voyall, then moved higher up to Rapide Bayau, and from thence to the n1outh of Rigula de Bondieu, a division of Red river, about 40 miles below· N atchitoch, where they now live, and are reduced to about 30 in number. 1,hcir native l~nguag~ is ~eculiar to themselves, but speak l\1obiv han, wh1ch 1s spoken by all the Indians frmn the east si~e of Mississippi. They are honest, harn1less and fnendly people. Bl APPALAC!fES, are .likewise emigrants from "'vVest Flonda, from ?ffthe nverwhose na1ne they bear; came o~er to Red nver about the same tin1e the Boluxas did, and have, ever since, lived on the river aboveBayau Rapi~e. No ~at ion .have been more highly est~emed by the French mhabtt~nts; no compiai11tS agam.st. them are ever . heard; there are only l .'t men remammg; have their own language but spe k French and Mobilian. ' c:l AL~IBA_l\~IS, are likewise from West Florida, off the Al~Ibami nver, and came to Reel river about the same time ~f the Bolu xas and Appalaches. Part of them have hve~ on Red river, about 16 miles above the Bayau Rapide, till last year, "\1\ihen most of this party, of about 30 men, went up Red river, and h<; ve ~ettled themselves near the Caddoques, where, I am U:formed, they last year made a good crop of corn. 1 ~e ~addos are friendly to them, and have no ObJection to their settling there. 1,hey ~peak the Creek and Chactaw languages, and Mobil ian; most of, them ~rench, and some of them English. fhere IS ano:her party of them, whose village is on a small creek, In Appelousa di~trict, about 30 miles ~~rt~ west from the church of Appelousa. '[hey ns1st of about 40 men. They have lived at the sam. e pl ace ever sm· ce they came fron1 Florida · are sa1d to be m· creas·m g a little in numbers for a' few years past. They raise corn, have horses' hogs and cattle, and are harmless, quiet people. ' theC~~CH.A TT AS, are almost the same people as r lhbamis, but came over only ten yeurs ago· first }ved on Bayau Chico, in Appelousa di.:ltrict ' but 1th0eu r years ago ' moved to t 11 e n·v er S .:tb.m e, ~' ettled, mselves on the east bank, where they now live in :~~[a sou_th direction from Natchitoch, and di;~ant b 80. miles. Thev call their number of men 160 ut say , 1f the y were a·l l together, they would amow1t' 11 |