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Quapaw. fouiul ;i (';n)iuliiii cinr, llic KfNCicnd l-'allicr IMiililiiTt, 

 Avhose inissioii, however, sooins to Ikim- Iuhmi nillier for the l)eiielit of 

 the whites than the Indians." 



M. Hubert did not <jo to his coiicession in jxT^on until ITil'i. when 

 the Natchez and other Inilian triljes farther up the Mississippi canio 

 to him to smoke the peace cahimet. The former took occasion to be<^ 

 for the pardon of the chief of White Earth, whose life had been for- 

 feited bv the terms of the treaty with Bienville. Bienville accorded 

 it, and the event was celebrated by a great feast in all the Natchez 

 towns.^ 



La Harpe, who passed Fort Rosalie January 20-25, 1722, found 

 Barnaval in connnand with 18 men, but notes that the fort was '• com- 

 posed only of bad, decayed posts, so that it admits of no defense." " 



AMiat is called " the second Natchez war '' broke out in the autunni 

 of this same year. La Harpe refers to it in the following terms: 



The 20th [of October, 17221 M. DustinO. coniiuj,' from the Xatches, related 

 that a sergeant of this garrison having had an altercation with some savages 

 regarding a debt, they had come to blows, which obliged them to summon the 

 guard; that these Indians making resistance, the son of a chief had been 

 killed and others wounded, a fact which had induced many of this nation to 

 attack the French; that M. (Juenot, one of the directors of the concession of 

 St. Catherine, when returning from the aforesaid concession on horseback, had 

 received a gunshot wound in the shoulder. The next day the savages tried to 

 surprise the cart of the settlement loaded with provisions and escorted by 20 

 fusileers; they had concealed themselves in the grass, from whence they had 

 fired a volley with their tirearms, killed a negro, and wounded another. Some 

 days afterward they had come to attack the concession to the number of 80; 

 they had been repulsed after having lost 7 men, and in this attack a man 

 named Marchand. a soldier of the garrison, had perished. After this expedition 

 they had suritrised 2 settlers in their houses, had cut oft' their heads, and had 

 killed 11 cows, many horses and pigs. 



The two i)rincii)al chiefs of the Natches had descended to New Orleans in 

 order t<» obtain information from M. de Bienville. They were sent back with 

 presents, and accompanied by M. de Pailloux, in order to quiet this disorder.'' 



The accounts given by Du Pratz and Dumont agree with this in all 

 essentials, though varying considerably in details and professing to be 

 much more elaborate. Du Pratz's narrative is as follows: 



A young soldier of the garrison had made some advances to an old warrior 

 of one of the Natchez villages (this was the White Apple village), who was to 

 give him some corn in return. Toward the l)eginning of the winter of 172:^, 

 this soldier being qiuirtered near the fort, tlie old warrior went to see him and 

 the soldier demanded of him his corn. The native rejilied gently that the corn 

 was not yet dry enough to husk, that besides his wife had been sick, and that 

 he would pay him as soon as it was possible. The young man, little satisfied 

 with this reply, threatened to give the old man a cudgeling. Immediately the 



»Jes. Rel.. i.xvii, .311. -■ La Ilarpe, Jour. Hist., 809, 1831. 



* Margry, Uecouvertes, v^ 573-575. ''Ibid., 343-345. 



