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 116 A SYNOPSIS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. [iNTROD. the Conchattas, who came from the Creek country ; the Taen- sas, who, though originally living on the west bank of the Mississippi, had in Du Pratt's time removed to the vicinity of the Mobile, whence they have again migrated to Red River ; the Hiunas, the Tunicas 9 the Boluxas, and the Pasca- goulas already mentioned, and the Pacanas said to have come from West Florida. Dr. Sibley asserts that each of these four last-mentioned tribes has a distinct language of its own. The second class consists of the following tribes, to wit : 1. The Caddoes or Caddokies, who formerly lived three hundred miles up Red River on a prairie near an eminence, on which they say, that, after all the world had been drowned by a flood, the Great Spirit placed one family of Caddoes from which all the Indians have originated. They have now re- moved to a branch of Red River about one hundred and twenty miles above Natchitoches. Though much diminished in number by the small -pox and by their wars with the Osages, and reduced to about one hundred warriors, they are held in great consideration by all the neighbouring tribes. Amongst these, the Nandakoes, the Ikies or Tachies, who have given their name to the province of Texas, and the Nabedaches, amounting together to about two hundred warriors, speak dia- lects of the Caddo language. 2. The Natchitoches and the Yatassees, living fifty miles above Natchitoches, amounting together to one hundred souls, and speaking the same language, said by Dr. Sibley to be different from any other. 3. The Adaize, living between the Natchitoches and the Yatassees, reduced to fifty souls, speak a language totally dis- tinct from any other known to us. 4. The Appelousas, in the district of that name, reduced to forty men, said by Dr. Sibley to speak a distinct language. 5. The Attacapas (" Men-eaters "), reduced to fifty men, said to have been formerly cannibals, speak a distinct language, which according to Dr. Sibley is also spoken by another tribe near the seashore, called CaranJcouas, but who probably are without the boundaries of the United States. 6. The Chactoos, living on Bayou Bceuf, estimated at thirty men, and having also, according to Dr. Sibley, a distinct lan- guage. 7. The Panis or Towiaches, on Red River, near the western boundary of the United States, and having two