Notes. 85 



in 173S, these Indians fled from the French, after being reinforced, 

 and came up Red River, and camped about six miles below the 

 town of Natchitoches, near the river, by the side of a small lake 

 of clear water, and erected a mound of considerable size, where 

 it now remains " 



This statement is, I believe, the source of all the statements in 

 the books that the Natchez, on their flight into Louisiana, built 

 mounds. 



C. The Mizndan Language, p. 78. Lewis and Clark spent 

 a winter with the Mandans, and Capt. Lewis' official report to 

 the president says they speak " a primitive language, with some 

 words resembling the Osages'." Prince Maximilian, of Wied, 

 who spent some months among the Mandans, in 1833, savs they 

 speak a distinct language, differing radically from the Rickarees 

 and Minnetarees. 



