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lu'iiij; (listiiK't in hut ()ii(> rt'S|M rt, llicir cliicrs lu'iu;; },'r(;i(-),'iiiii(lsniis. the <m»' of 

 a lloiuuns, the otlior of a Hiiyatioulas, which nccoiiiits for (heir preserving 

 these ujiines, although the orifjinal trilies have long been extinct. The above 

 tmitcHl nations can fnniisli from !»() to 1(K) warriors; [there are] as many youths, 



and as many women." 



Taken with what we know of the previous history of these three 

 tribes, this is tantamount to saying that they had become practically 

 fused into one. This ((notation will explain the appearance of the 

 Bayogoula in Baudry de Lozieres's Voyage a La Louisiane, which 

 jmrports to contain the results of travels in the years 1704 to 1798, 

 though there is evidence that considerable of the information con- 

 tained in it applies to the year 1715. It is as follows: 



The liayugoHlds. — Tliey are reduced to 40 men, who inhabit a good land, but 

 little suitable for hunting. They live 11 leagues above [the Washa], ou the 

 other side of the river; warriors industrious and brave; reduced to 40, from 

 the 200 that they formerly were, through the treason of the Taensas, whom 

 they had received as refugees.'' 



' The Houma village was then 12 leagues above this on the same 

 side, from which it would seem that the Bayogoula included the 

 Acolapissa, of whom no mention is made, but had not yet united 

 with the Houma. By 1758 this union nuist have been consummated, 

 however, for De Kerlerec in his report for that year speaks of them 

 as one of the tribes destroyed by the proximity of the French and 

 trade in liquor.*^ Their subsequent history is that of the Houma. 



The Qi inipissa and Mugulasha 



Quinii^issa is undoubtedly from Choctaw kana^ * a person,' ' some 

 one,' ' persons,' and pissa, ' to see,' and is therefore almost identical 

 with Xapissa, kcpia being merely a lengthened form of na. Both 

 may be translated '" those who see," or " scouts," perhaps meaning 

 " outposts." The Xapissa are spoken of b}- Iberville as living close 

 to the Chickasaw, with Avhom they were later incorporated. There 

 is a remote possibility' that the tribes bearing these names and the 

 Acolapissa were fragments of one ancient branch of the Muskhogean 

 stock, bearing the same relation to the Choctaw and Chickasaw as 

 the Chakchiuma and Houma, but this is mentioned only by way of 

 suggestion. Mugulasha is a corruption of Imongolasha, which means 

 " people of the other side or phratry.'' 



The Quinipissa were encountered by La Salle and his companions 

 in their descent of the Mississippi in 1082. Advancing to recon- 

 noiter them, the explorers were received with flights of arroAvs, and 

 on their return the people of this place pretended to make peace, 

 but instead made an assault upon them during the night, which was 



« Claiborne, Hist. Miss., G4-85. 



"Voy. ft La Louisiane, 246-247, 1802. 



" Compte Rendu Cong. Internat. des Am^r., loth sess., i, 75. 



