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landed and entered their cabins, where they presented us wild-beef and 
bear’s oil, with white plums, which are excellent. They have guns, axes, hoes, 
knives, beads, and double glass bottles in which they keep the powder. They 
wear their hair long and mark their bodies in the Iroquois fashion; the head- 
dress and clothing of their women were like those of the Huron squaws. 
“They assured us that it was not more than ten days’ journey to the sea; 
that they bought stuffs and other articles of Europeans on the eastern side; 
that these Europeans had rosaries and pictures; that they played on instru- 
ments; that some were like me, who received them well. I did not, however, 
see any one who seemed to have received any instruction in the faith; such as 
I could, I gave them with some medals.’’'* 
From the Huron resemblances noted by Marquette Shea suggests 
an Jroquoian relationship for this people but nothing certain can be 
deduced from his words and the old home of the Monsopelea was not 
far from the Erie and other Iroquoian peoples from whom the customs 
noted might have been derived. Lower down Marquette was in- 
formed by the Quapaw ‘‘that the Indians with fire-arms whom we had 
met, were their enemies who cut off their passage to the sea, and pre- 
vented their making acquaintance of the Europeans, or having any 
commerce with them; that, besides, we should expose ourselves greatly 
by passing on, in consequence of the continual war-parties that their 
enemies sent out on the river; since being armed and used to war, 
we could not, without evident danger, advance on that river which 
they constantly occupy.’’!7 It is probable that the explorers con- 
founded what was said about this particular enemy tribe which they 
had met with accounts of other enemy tribes, and either Marquette or 
those who read his narrative not unnaturally assumed that the fire- 
arms and other European goods were brought from the mouth of the 
Mississippi. They therefore supposed that there must be another 
settlement of the same enemies below them and so it is represented on 
the maps of Thevenot and Joliet. Thevenot also gives “‘Aganahali’”’ 
as the name of a tribe associated with the Monsopelea. As there was 
no European settlement nearer the mouth of the Mississippi than the 
Apalachee country of Western Florida and the Spaniards were not 
allowed to furnish the Indians with fire-arms, it must be supposed that 
they had obtained their weapons either from the English in Virginia 
or the Dutch of New Netherlands. 
Under this name, or this form of the name, the tribe appears but 
once afterward. When La Salle stopped at the Taensa village on 
what is now called Lake St. Joseph, Louisiana, Tonti says: 
16 Shea, Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley, 43-44. 
17 Thidem, 47-48. 
