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Show 84 poultry plenty. Thei~ hor~es are much. like _the poorer ki11d of French Inhabitants on the nver, and appear to live about as \Vell. T .ENISA WS, are likewise en1igrants fi·onl the Tenesau nver, that falls into the bay of Mobile; have been on Hed riYer about 40 years; are reduced to about 25 1nen. 'Their village is within one mile of the Pasc,~golas, on the opposite side, but haY~ lately sold their land, and have, or are about movmg, to B.n au Beauf, about 25 miles south from "here they lat~ly lived~ all speak French and Mobilian, and live much like their neighbors tble Pascagolas. CHACTOOS' live on Bay. au Beauf, abont 1. 0 miles to the ~~outhwarcl oi B Jy ... u R:.1pide, on R··d nver, ~ · warcls Appalousa: a small, honest people; are a bon .. ginrs o ' the country where they live; of men about 30 ; di n~ i n ishing: have thtir own peculiar tongue; speak Mobilian. The lands they claim on Bayau Be,:uf are inferior to no part of Louisiana in depth an~ richness of soil, growth uf titnber, plea~antness of surface and goodness of water. The Bayau Beauf falls into the Chaffeli, and discharges, through Appe· lou sa and Attakapa, into Vermilion Bay. 'i\l ASH AS. When the French first came into the Mississippi, this nation lived on an island to the south west of New Orleans, called Barritaria, and were the first tribe of Indians they became acquainted with, and were always friends. 'I'hey afterwards lived on Bayau La F e>sh ~ and, from being a considerable nation, are now reduced to five persons only, two men and three women, who are scattered in French families; have been many years extinct, as a nation, and their native language is lost. CHACT A WS. There are a considerable number ()f this nation on the west side of the Mississippi, who BS have not been home for several years. About 12 miles above the post on Oacheta, on that river, there is a small village of them of about 30 men, who have lived there for several years, and made corn; and likewise on Bay au Chico, jn the northern part of the district of Appalousa, there is another village of them of about 50 men, who have been there for about 9 years, and say they have the governor of Louisiana'~ permission to settle there. Besides these, there are ramblinohunting parties of them to be met with all over Lowe~ Louisiana. They are at war with the Caddoques, and liked by neither red nor white people. ARKENSAS, live on the Arkansa river, south side, in three villages, about 12 miles above the post or station. The name of the first village is 7'awanima: second Oufotu,, and the third Ocapa; in all, it is beli~ v~d? t~ey do not at present exceed 100 men, and ch!l·umshmts. They are at war with the Osages, but fn.ct~dly With all other people, "':hite and red; are the on~mal propri.etors of the country on the river, to all whtch they cla1m, for about 300 1niles above them to the junction of the river Cadwa with Arkensa · ab~ve this fork the Osages claim. Their language is' Osage. ~hey generally raise corn to sell; are called honest and fnend.ly people. The forementioned are all the Indian tribes that I hav~ a.ny knowledge of, or can obtain an account of, in L~ut~m~a, south of the river Arkensa, between the ¥ISSISSip~i and river Grand. At Avoyall there did hve a considerable tribe of that name, but, as far as I can learn, have been extinct for many years, two or ~ree w~men ~xcepted, who did lately live among the rench mhab1tants on Washita. sidThere are a ~e"': o~th~ ~umas still living on the east M e of the Mississippi, 1~ Ixsusees parish, below anchack, but scarcely ex1st, as a nation. I |