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( ioiifd. w lio Mccoinpanicd his pai'ly on llicir rcliini I'loiii t lie Ilouiiia and 

 one of whom was accused of having- stolen a l)ic\ iaiy l)('h)n<i-in^ to 

 ihc Recollect priest Anastasius." This trihe may haxc been the Tioux, 

 the name being badly transcribed and some nonessential syllable 

 ad(k'd. During the same expedition Iberville and a few of his com- 

 panions returned to the shij)s via the Manchae. It is stated in the 

 journal just referred to that "he carried with liim presents to give 

 to the Ananis and the Mouloubis who are in thi- river."'' At first 

 sight two new tribes appeal' to be indicated, but in his own journal 

 Iberville says nothing about them, and it is apparent that Ananis 

 is a slight misreading of Anaxis referred to in the narrative of the 

 Marquis de Chasteaumorant,' where they are evidently the Biloxi, 

 this particular form being taken from their native designation, 

 Tane'ksi. The writer of the journal was apparently deceived by the 

 fact that the ^Nlanchac was, as Iberville expresses it, " the river which 

 goes to the Bilochy." <* The " Mouloubis " are evidently the Moctobi. 

 The Xapissa, Napyssa, or Napyosa were said to be united with the 

 Chickasaw,*" and as they never appear again in history it is prol)able 

 that they were merely a part of the Chickasaw nation, possibly some 

 outlying villages, since the word means " an eycAvitness or beholder " 

 and therefore perhaps a "scout or spy." In a list of tribes which 

 came to " sing the calumet " before him Iberville mentions among 

 those on the east side of the river the Bayacchito and Amilcou.^ 

 Bayacchito signifies ' Big bayou ' in Choctaw, but there is no other 

 clue to the location or classification of either. Xicolas de la Salle, 

 in his narrative of the expedition of 1G82, says that some Quinipissa 

 women whom the explorers met told them the Tangipahoa had been 

 destroyed by "the Ouma and Chigilousa."*' Ouma is, of course, 

 Ilouma, but Chigilousa is nowhere else referred to, though the name 

 is certain!}' Choctaw, lousa signifying * black,' as in Okelousa, Ope- 

 lousa, etc. In 1086 Tonti encountered, somewhere between the 

 Ilouma and Quinipissa, a tribe which he calls " Pischenoas." '' These 

 are never heard of again under that name, but it is possible that they 

 were the people afterward known as Bayogoula. Plshno in Choctaw 

 signifies 'we, us, our.' and perhaps Tonti. on asking who the people 

 were, was told " They are ours." Innatchahez seems to be used in one 

 document as a synonym for Atakapu ; ' its origin is unknown. Other 

 names of this character l)elong for the most part to a later date and 

 are misprints or misreadings of some of the foregoing. In this con- 

 nection mention should be made of the Mosopelea, or Monsopelea. 

 a real tribe of supposed Algonquian affinity. They are first noted by 



° Margry, D^couvertes, iv, 274. f Ibid., 155. 



» Ibid., 272. « Ibid., i, .563. 



••Ibid.. 113. • "Ibid., in, 557. 



''Ibid.. 184. < Ibid., vi, 235. 

 • Ibid., 164, 180, 184. 



