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Show 82 to 200. Several families of thetn live in detached se1.tle1nent~. They are good hunters, and game is plenty about where they arc. A few days ago, a small party of then1 were here, consisting of 15 persons, n1e11, women and children, who were on their return from u bear hunt up Sabine. 'rhey told me they had killed 118; but this year an uncom1non number of bears have come down. One man alone, on Sabine, du ring the summer and fall, hunting, killed 400 deer, sold his skins at 40 dollars a hundred. The bears this year are not so fat as com1non; they usually yield frmn eight to twelve gallons of oil, each of which never sells for less than a dollar a gallon, and the skin a dollar more; no great quantity of the meat is saved; what the hunters don't use when out, they ge.nerally give to their dogs. The Conchattas are friendly with all other indians, and speak well of their neighbors the Carankouas, who, they say, live about 80 tniles south of thetn, on the bay, which, I believe, is the nearest point to the sea from Natchitoches. A few fami lies of Chactaws have lately settled near them fro~n B.ayau ~eauf.. The Conchattas speak Creek, which 1s their nativ~ language, and Chactaw, and several of them English, and one or two of them can read it a little. PACANAS, are a small tribe of about 30 men who live on the Quelqueshoe river, which fdlls int~ the bay between A ttak.apa and Sabine, \vhich heads in a prairie called Cooko prairie, about 40 miles south 've~t of Natchitoches. 1'hese people are likewise en11&'ran~s fro~ West Florida, about 40 years ago. Tht.:u· village IS about 50 miles south east of the Concha~tas; are said to be increasing a little in number; quiet, peaceable and friendly people. Their own language dtffers from any other, but speak Mobilian. A TTA KAP AS. This word I am informed when translated into English, m:ans man-eater, but 83 is no n:tor~ applica?le t_o ~hem than any other Indians. The dtstnct they hve In IS called after them. 'fheir village is about 20 miles to the westward of the Attakapa church, towards Quelqueshoe. Their number of men is about 50, but some Tunicas and Humas, who have married in their nation and live with them makes th~m altogether about 80. They are peacea-' ble an~ fr~endl~ to every body; labor, occasion:tlly, tor the whtte Inhabitants; raise their own corn; have cattle and hogs. Their language and the Carankouas is the same. They were, or near, where they now live, when that part of the country was first discovered by the French. APPALOUSAS. It is said the word Appalousa in the Indian language, means black head, or black skt~ll. They are aborigines of the district called by their name. Their village is about 15 miles west fron1 the Appelousa church; have about 40 men. Their native language differs from all other; understand Attakapa and speak French; plant corn; have cattle and hogs. TUNIC~S. These p~ople lived formerly on the ~ay~u Tun~ca, above POint Coupee, on the MissisSippi, east Side; live now at Avoyall; do not at present exceed 25 men. Their native language is peculiar to t~emselves, but .spea~ Mobilian; are employed, occaSI? nally, by the 1nhab1tants as boatmen, &c. in amity With all other people, and gradually diminishing in numbers. . PASCAGOLA~, live in a stnall village •On Red nver, about 60 miles below Natchitoches; are emigrants from Pascagola river, in West Florida; 25 men only of them remaining; speak Mobilian but have a language peculiar to themselves; most of them speak and understand French. They raise good crops of corn, and garden vegetables; have cattle, horses, and i |