LOUISIANA. S09 



ment of adultery among the ChaHa'ws. Some- 

 times the guilty woman, has the good luck, 

 after this infamy, to find a mean fellow, who 

 takes her as his wife, under the pretence that 

 fhe muft be difgufted with a criminal condu(5b, 

 that has drawn fuch a punifhment on her, and 

 that (he will confequently behave better for the 

 future. Be this as it will, llic is always 

 looked upon as a depraved and immoral wo- 

 man. 



Before I finifh my letter I mud fay a word of 

 the Tchicachas^ or Chickfaws, 1 his nation is not 

 fo numerous as the Cha^aws^ but more terrible, 

 on account of their intrepidity. All the 

 northern and fouthern Indian nations, and even 

 the Frenchy have attacked them, without ever 

 being able to drive them out of their country, 

 which is the fined and moft fruitful on the con- 

 tinent. The Chickfaws are tall, well made, and 

 of an unparalleled courage. In 1732 and 

 1753, they attacked MelT, Benoiji and de ReggiOy 

 who commanded the convoys from the Illinois 

 ilation, defcending the river Mijfifippi: thefe 

 Indians always choofe fome advantageous fitua- 

 tion, to make an attack in, their moft common 

 poft is at the rocks of Prud/wmme, the river be- 

 X 3 ing 



