42 Bringier on the Region of the Mississippi, 8c. 
not look so well as the Quawpaws; » who have @ custom pe- 
culiar to them alone, to dist n the girls, 
the different manner in “which t they put up their hair. 
‘hese Quawpaws have four small villages, two hundred 
and sixty miles below the Cherokees, on the south bank of 
the Arkansas, extending along the bank as low as the post. 
Although they have been better than one hundred ‘years 
with the French’ sncentriia they are precisely in their primi- 
tive savage state; and what is strange, most of the French 
et, the best savages in the world, though very miserable, 
and in all other respects they resemble the Osages. 
Aneedote. 
cy trait of (nee eo coe in the: eds of. the 
abo: origina al A merican | es, is evinced in the following: act 
of Kaykay V , one of the ancient chiefs of the Quaw- 
French indians. — ~The fact occurred about the time when the 
‘rench first cal — French gave 
name to all the tribes on that rive 
This chief leading a party of one enared and twenty 
Quawpaws,* in pursuit of the Chekessas, overtook them at 
the mouth of St. Francis river. This party consisted of 
two hundred and sixty men, who were tomes: speed to 
eross the river in order to avoid an pra ig en ay kay 
Watonica taxed the Chekessas with cowardice; the ey replied 
that they could not make defence, as digi poe had got 
wet. Well, said Ka aykay Watonica, send yours here; we 
have some which is dry, it is not enough to share with y 
but we will mix the whole together, and then we will share. 
This was done ie the horns were ree ou 
ne bows ih the han panes wood r pt oy dl betoeae which 
srow i $ were” in great demand amongst th 
ia Sic of importance, which mak aw weecg Frese a 
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river took the full name, oe al the ns of course: “hence the Grav 
paws and 4 sas are syno} sd 
