178 NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST. 



Kickapous, Outagamis, Malominis (Mcnominis), Pouteouta- 

 mis, Ojatinons,* Sakis ; and, north of Missisippi, Naudoessis, 

 Assimpouls (Assiniboins), Sonkaskitons, Atintons, Clistinos, 

 Eskimos. To the west, on the river called Long River, 

 which is St. Peter's valley, he mentions the Panimoha (Paw- 

 nee Maha), now on the Missouri ; Okoros, or Eokoros, near 

 the mouth of Long River ; Essanapes, sixty leagues further 

 up the river ; and the Gnacsitares, still further up. He says : 

 the Eokoros had twelve villages and twenty thousand war- 

 riors ; and that they were much greater before their recent 

 wars. He describes the Mozemlek Indians to the west, on 

 a river which, at one hundred and fifty leagues from his place 

 on Long River, discharges itself into a great salt lake, three 

 hundred leagues in circumference, having at its mouth six 

 large walled towns, and many others around the lake. The 

 people around this lake call themselves Tahuglauk. All 

 this was reported to him by the Gnacsitares, and was, no 

 doubt, not correctly understood. The River Chayen-oju 

 comes from a salt water region, to the north, and empties into 

 the Red River, The Mozemlek may have lived on that, or 

 on the Red River, which discharges itself into Hudson's 

 Bay. The final syllable of their name may have been 

 mistaken for lac, the whole name being derived from some 

 lake in that vicinity. There is a band called Esconabe, to 

 the north and east, in Canada, who may be the same as the 

 Essanape. Both the Mozemlek and Tahuglauk are described 

 as wearing beards and clothing. Charlevoix also relates that 

 he received information of some Indians inhabiting about the 

 Great Lake in the Northwest, which has been before men- 

 tioned, who wore buttons on their clothes, and looked like 

 Frenchmen. I must repeat my belief in the probable occur- 



* This is spelt, by Charlevoix, I think, Ouiatinons (Weatinons), and may 

 be the tribe of the Miamis now called Weas. 



