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  IN 
  MAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  Spanish 
  fort 
  or 
  mission 
  of 
  Adaize, 
  "about 
  40 
  miles 
  from 
  Natchi- 
  

   toches., 
  below 
  the 
  Yattassees, 
  on 
  a 
  lake 
  called 
  Lac 
  Macdon, 
  which 
  

  

  communicates 
  with 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  Red 
  River 
  that 
  passes 
  by 
  Bayau 
  

   Pierre." 
  ' 
  A 
  vocabulary 
  of 
  about 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  words 
  is 
  all 
  

   that 
  remains 
  to 
  us 
  of 
  their 
  language, 
  which 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  col- 
  

   lector, 
  Dr. 
  Sibley, 
  "differs 
  from 
  all 
  others, 
  and 
  is 
  so 
  difficult 
  to 
  speak 
  

   or 
  understand 
  that 
  no 
  nation 
  can 
  speak 
  ten 
  words 
  of 
  it." 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  from 
  an 
  examination 
  of 
  Sibley's 
  vocabulary 
  that 
  Gallatin 
  

   reached 
  the 
  conclusion 
  of 
  the 
  distinctness 
  of 
  this 
  language 
  from 
  any 
  

   other 
  known, 
  an 
  opinion 
  accepted 
  by 
  most 
  later 
  authorities. 
  A 
  

   recent 
  comparison 
  of 
  this 
  vocabulary 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Gatschet, 
  with 
  several 
  

   Caddoan 
  dialects, 
  has 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  discovery 
  that 
  a 
  considerable 
  per- 
  

   centage 
  of 
  the 
  Adai 
  words 
  have 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  remote 
  affinity 
  with 
  

   Caddoan, 
  and 
  he 
  regards 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  Caddoan 
  dialect. 
  The 
  amount 
  of 
  

   material, 
  however, 
  necessary 
  to 
  establish 
  its 
  relationship 
  to 
  Caddoan 
  

   is 
  not 
  at 
  present 
  forthcoming, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  doubted 
  if 
  it 
  ever 
  will 
  

   be. 
  as 
  recent 
  inquiry 
  has 
  failed 
  to 
  reveal 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  

   member 
  of 
  the 
  tribe, 
  or 
  of 
  any 
  individual 
  of 
  the 
  tribes 
  once 
  "sur- 
  

   rounding 
  the 
  Adai 
  who 
  remembers 
  a 
  word 
  of 
  the 
  language. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Gatschet 
  found 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  Caddo 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   Territory 
  remembered 
  the 
  Adai 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  tribes 
  formerly 
  belong- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  the 
  Caddo 
  Confederacy. 
  More 
  than 
  this 
  he 
  was 
  unable 
  to 
  

   learn 
  from 
  them. 
  

  

  Owing 
  to 
  their 
  small 
  numbers, 
  their 
  remoteness 
  from 
  lines 
  of 
  

   travel, 
  and 
  their 
  unwarlike 
  character 
  the 
  Adai 
  have 
  cut 
  but 
  a 
  small 
  

   figure 
  in 
  history, 
  and 
  accordingly 
  the 
  known 
  facts 
  regarding 
  them 
  

   are 
  very 
  meager. 
  The 
  first 
  historical 
  mention 
  of 
  them 
  appears 
  to 
  

   be 
  by 
  Cabega 
  de 
  Vaca. 
  who 
  in 
  his 
  "Naufragios," 
  referring 
  to 
  his 
  

   stay 
  in 
  Texas, 
  about 
  1530. 
  calls 
  them 
  Atayos. 
  Mention 
  is 
  also 
  made 
  

   of 
  them 
  by 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  French 
  explorers 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  

   as 
  dTberville 
  and 
  Joutel. 
  

  

  The 
  Mission 
  of 
  Adayes, 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  its 
  proximity 
  to 
  the 
  homo 
  

   of 
  the 
  tribe, 
  was 
  established 
  in 
  1715. 
  In 
  1792 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  partial 
  

   emigration 
  of 
  the 
  Adai 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  fourteen 
  families 
  to 
  a 
  site 
  

   south 
  of 
  San 
  Antonio 
  de 
  Bejar, 
  southwest 
  Texas, 
  where 
  apparently 
  

   they 
  amalgamated 
  with 
  the 
  surrounding 
  Indian 
  population 
  and 
  were 
  

   lost 
  sight 
  of. 
  (From 
  documents 
  preserved 
  at 
  the 
  City 
  Hall. 
  San 
  An- 
  

   tonio, 
  and 
  examined 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  December, 
  1S86.) 
  The 
  Adai 
  

   who 
  were 
  left 
  in 
  their 
  old 
  homes 
  numbered 
  one 
  hundred 
  in 
  1802, 
  ac- 
  

   cording 
  to 
  Baudry 
  de 
  Lozieres. 
  According 
  to 
  Sibley, 
  in 
  1S09 
  there 
  

   were 
  only 
  "twenty 
  men 
  of 
  them 
  remaining, 
  but 
  more 
  women." 
  In 
  

   1820 
  Morse 
  mentions 
  only 
  thirty 
  survivors. 
  

  

  1 
  Travels 
  of 
  Lewis 
  aud 
  Clarke, 
  London, 
  1809, 
  p. 
  189. 
  

  

  