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We went up this creek for the space of a league, and landed at a place where formerly stood the village {18} of the natives, who are called Cola-Pissas, an appellation corrupted by the French, the true name of that nation being Aquelou-Pissas, that is, _the nation of men that hear and see_.
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Being arrived at the Creek Choupic the Sicur Lavigne, a Canadian, lodged me in a cabin of the Aquelou-Pissas, whose village he had bought.
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The Jesuits have the Cure there, with a fine habitation and a mill; in digging the foundation of which last, a quarry of orbicular flat stones was found, about two inches in diameter, of the shape of a buffoon's cap, with six sides, whose groove was set with small buttons of the size of the head of a minikin or small pin.
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In returning towards the coast next the river Missisippi, we meet with a small nation of about twenty huts, named Aquelou-Pissas, that is, _Men who understand and see_.
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[THE END] INDEX Index Abeikas Indians--293 Acacia Tree--222 Achechy--237 Adaies Indians--9; Post of, 54 Agriculture, Indian--341 Aiaouez Indians--59, 62; 63; 66; 305 Alaron, Martin de--9, 10 Algonquins--93 Alder--226 Alibamous Indians--293 Alibamous River--135 Alligator-- slave girl kills, 19; author kills large one, 22; description of, 253-255 Amite River--113 Ants--272; 273 Aplaches Indians--293 Apples, wild--212 Aquelou-Pissas Indians--18; 297 Arkansas-- German colonists there, 29; 88 Arkansas Indians-- mate with Canadians, 4; 57; 303 Arkansas River-- reached by Tonti, 4; 112; 113; 153-154 Armed-fish--276-277 Ascension Bay--114; 139 Ash--226 Aspen--226 Assinais Indians--5-9 Attakapas Indians-- cannibals, 302 Avoyelles Indians--149; home of, 302-303 Ayac Shrub--226 Balers, Marquis of--9 Barataria--145 Barbel, description of--274 Barley--203 Baton Rouge--52; named after a cypress tree, 217 Bay of St. Bernard--3 Bay of St. Esprit--2 Bay of St. Louis--16; 17; 114; lands around, 138 Bayou Choupic--17; 18 Bayou Goula--141 Bayou-Ogoulas Indians--52; 302 Bayou St. John--17; 18; 49; 52 Beans-- cultivation in La., 204 Bears--132; 133; description of, 245-249; feast of, 324 Beavers-- description of, 127-131 Bec-croche--261 Bees--271 Bienville-- becomes Gov.
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Valley, 57; of La., 107-108 Clothing of Indians--344-346 Cochineal--183 Cockle-Island--17, 138 Codfish--14 Cola-Pissas--18 Colbert--3 Coligni, Admiral de--2 Conchac Indians--293 Copper Mines--30, 145 Corbijeau--266 Cormorant, 259 Coroas Indians--300 Cooking, Indian--342 Corn-- description of, 164-165; importance of.185; its cultivation in La., 202; feast of, 321-322; 347 Cotton--145; 158; how cultivated, 174-175; for export, 181 Cotton Tree--222 Coxe-- account of Carolina, VI; XIII; 47 Cranes--22; 126; description of, 261 Crayfish--277 Creeper, bearded--232 Crocodile--253-255 Crows--268 Crozat-- La.