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Catawba, Winnebago, and Quapaw equivalents, so far as this could 
be done without a too great expenditure of time. He has also in- 
cluded the few words of Woccon preserved to us in the vocabulary 
of Lawson.’ This comparison leads to the following conclusions: 
1. Woccon must be classed with Catawba rather than Tutelo. 
Of about fifty-nine opportunities to compare Woccon with the other 
languages resemblances to Catawba appeared to exist in about twenty- 
six cases, while there were fourteen with Tutelo, Biloxi, and Hidatsa, 
fifteen with Dakota, and twelve with Ofo. 
2. Leaving Woccon out of consideration, Catawba stands strikingly 
apart from the rest. In order to reénforce this fact I have made a 
table (p. 36) containing more than forty cases in which all or a large 
part of the Siouan dialects compared agree with each other and differ, 
sometimes strikingly, from Catawba. 
3. As might have been anticipated, Biloxi and Ofo are quite closely 
related. Their nearest congeners in the north are, upon the whole, 
the Tutelo, but it is singular that their next closest relatives should be 
the comparatively distant Dakota. The Omaha-Osage division is 
decidedly farther removed. ‘The testimony yielded by the languages 
of the Biloxi and Ofo thus points directly away from those Siouan 
tribes nearest them in geographical position both east and west and 
toward the northern tribes of each of those divisions. 
How this puzzling inversion could have been brought about it was 
impossible to suggest until recently, and the past history of the Biloxi 
is, indeed, still shrouded in mystery. On the map of Baron de Crenay 
compiled in 1733 we find the name “‘Bilouchy”’ affixed to a town at the 
mouth of a small creek on the western side of Alabama River, in what 
is now Wilcox County, Alabama.* This may indicate a stage in the 
southward migration of the Biloxi tribe; it is the only clew we have. 
Our knowledge of the past movements of the second southern 
Siouan tribe, the Ofo, is not much more assured, but recently data 
has accumulated tending toward a conclusion interesting in itself to 
the ethnologist and of cardinal importance to students of the archae- 
ology of southern Ohio and the neighboring sections. 
As stated in my account of the Ofo in Bulletin 47 this tribe is called 
by the Tunica Uepi (Ushpee),° and we know that this appellation is 
an old one because it appears four times in the very earliest Louisiana 
documents, in the several forms “‘Ouispe,” ‘‘Oussipés,” ‘‘Ounspik”’ 
7 Lawson, Hist. of Carol., 367-377. 
8 See map accompanying Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 73. 
® Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 47: 10-11. 
