250 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
They have no weapons but bows and arrows, tomahawks, and a kind of 
wooden pikes, for which reason they often suffer greatly from the eastern 
Indians, who have the use of fire-arms, and frequently visit the White 
Indians on the bank of the easterly branch (of Muddy River ?), and 
kill or captivate them in great numbers. Such as fall alive into their 
hands they generally ‘sell for slaves. These Indians live in large towns, 
and have commodious houses; they raise corn, tame the wild cows, and 
use both their milk and flesh; they keep great numbers of dogs, and are 
very dextrous in hunting; they have little or no commerce with any 
nation that we at present are acquainted with.” This narrative seems 
circumstantial, but is geographically indefinite, and requires confirma- 
tion it is little likely to receive. 
Mr. Charles Beatty wrote a journal, which, among other things, 
states that, during the autumn of 1766, being at the foot of the Alle- 
ghany mountains in Pennsylvania, he stopped at the house of Mr. John 
Millar, where he “met with one Benjamin Sutton who had been taken 
captive by the Indians, and had been in different nations, and lived 
many years among them. When he was with the Choctaws, at the 
Mississippi river, he went to an Indian town, a very considerable distance 
from New Orleans, whose inhabitants were of different complexions, not 
so tawny as those of the other Indians, and who spoke Welsh. He saw 
a book among them, which he supposed was a Welsh Bible, which they 
carefully kept wrapped up in a skin, but they could not read it; and he 
heard some of these Indians afterwards, in the lower Shawanee town, 
speak Welsh with one Lewis, a Welshman, captive there. This Welsh 
tribe now live on the west side of the Mississippi, a great way above 
New Orleans.” At Tuscarora valley he met with another man, named 
Levi Hicks, who had been a captive from his youth with the Indians. 
He said he was once attending an embassy at an Indian town, on the 
west side of the Mississippi, where the inhabitants spoke Welsh, “ as he 
was told, for he did not understand them” himself. An Indian, named 
Joseph Peepy, Mr. Beatty’s interpreter, said he once saw some Indians, 
whom he supposed to be of the same tribe, who talked Welsh. He was 
sure they talked Welsh, for he had been acquainted with Welsh people, 
and knew some words they used. Then follows the adventure of a 
clergyman, doubtless Mr. Morgan Jones already mentioned, but the story 
is vitiated by the introduction of a printed Welsh Bible. 
In 1782 the narrative of Captain Isaac Stuart of the Provincial 
Cavalry of South Carolina was taken from his own mouth by J. C., Esq., 
and published. It says: “I was taken prisoner, about fifty miles to the 
westward of Fort Pitt, about eighteen years ago, by the Indians, and 
