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over which traders and travelers jour- 

 neyed between the French and Spanish 

 provinces, and one of the villages was a 

 statioii on the road between the French 

 fort at Natchitoches and the Spanish fort 

 at San Antonio. As the villages of the 

 tribe were scattered over a territory one 

 portion of which was under the control 

 of the French and the other under that of 

 the Spaniards, the Indians were subjected 

 to all the adverse influences of tlie white 

 race and suffered fruui their wars and 

 from the new diseases and intoxicants 

 which they introduced, -St) that by 1778 

 they were reported bv Mezieres (Han- 

 croft, No. Mex. States, 'i, 661, 1886) as al- 

 most exterminated. About 1792, 14 fami- 

 lies of the tribe, together with a number 

 of ]\Iexicans, emigrated to a region s. of 

 San Antonio de Bejar, but they soon 

 melted away and were lost among other 

 Indians. Tliose who remained numbered 

 about 100. In 1805 Sibley reported a 

 small settlement of these Indians on Lac 

 Macdon, near an affluent of Red r. ; it 

 contained only 20 men, but a larger num- 

 ber of women. This Adai remnant 

 had never left their ancient locality, but 

 thev had not escaj)ed the vicissitudes of 

 their kindred. In 1715 Domingo Ramon, 

 with a company of Franciscans, traverse(l 

 the Adai territory and started settle- 

 ments. In 1716 the mission of San Miguel 

 de Linares was founded among them, and 

 there were Adai also in the mission of San 

 Francisco de losTejas, established in 1690. 

 About 1735 a military post called Nuestra 

 Senora del Pilar was added, and 5 

 years later this garrison l)ecame the Pre- 

 sidio de los Aclayes. Later, when the 

 country was districted for the jurisdic- 

 tion of Indians, the Adai tribe was i)laced 

 under the division having its official head- 

 quarters at Nacogdoches. In all essentials 

 of living and ceremony they resend)led 

 the other Caddo, by wlioni the remnant 

 was finally absorbed. (a. c. v.) 



Adaes.— Rivera. Diario, leg. 2,602, 173(i. Adaes.— 

 Bollaert in .1. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., n, 2(15, 1850. 

 Adage.— Tanner, Nar., 327, 1830. Adahi.— Latham, 

 Klein. Comp. PliiloL, 467, 1862. Ada'-i.— Moonev, 

 Caddo MS.. B. A. E., 1891. Adaices.— .\iin. de la 

 Prop, de la Foi, ni, 508, 182s. Adaics.— Boudinot, 

 Star in the West, 125, 1816. Adaies.— Penicaut 

 (1701) in French, Hist. Coll. La., ii. s. i, 73, 1869. 

 Adaihe.— Latham, Eleni.Comp. Philol., 469, 1862. 

 Adais.— Mota-Padilla3(1742), Hist, de la Conq., 

 177, 1870. Adaisses.— Bollaert in J. Ethnol. .Soc. 

 Lond., II, 280, 1S50. Adaize.— Siblev, Hist. 

 Sketches, 67, 1806. Adayes.— La Harpe (1719) in 

 Margry. i)(?c.. vi, 303, 1886. Adays. — La Harpe in 

 French, Hist. C^oll. La., iil. 47. 1851. Addaise. — 

 Schermerhorn (1812) in Mass. Hist. Coll., 2d s.. ii, 

 24, 1S14. Addaize. — Brackenridge. Views of La., 

 SI. 1814. Addees.— U. S. Iiid. Treaties, 165, 1826. 

 Addles.— Clark and Cass (182'J) (luoted by School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, ill, 596, 1853. Adees. — Keane 

 in Stanford, Compend., 499, 1878. Adeyches. — 

 Martin, Hist. La., i, 202, 1827. Adiais.— .lefferys. 

 Am. Atlas, map 5, 1776. Adoses, — Villa-Seiior, 

 Th eat TO A m . , 1 1 , 329, 1 748 . Adyes. — Pi k e , E .\ ped . , 

 277, 1810. Andayes. — Baudry des Lozieres, Voy. 

 Louisiane, 241, 1802. Atayos.— Cabe^a de Vaca 

 (1529), Smith transl., 121, 1871. Atoyos.— Davis, 



Sp)an. Conq., N. Mex., 82, 1869.^ Azadyze.— Wood- 

 ward, Reminis., 78. ls.59. Hadai. — Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg., i, 43, 1884. Hadaies.— Doc. of 18th 

 centiirv quoted bv Smith, Cabe^a de Vaca, 127, 

 note, 1871. Natao.— Iberville (1699) in Margrv, 

 Dec, IV, 17S, 1880. 



Adario. A Tionontate ch ief , known also 

 as Kondiaronk, Sastaretsi, and The Rat. 

 He had a high reputati(jn for lira very and 

 sagacity, and was courted by the French, 

 who made a treaty with him in 1688 by 

 which he agreed to lead an expedition 

 against the Iroipiois, his here<litary ene- 

 mies. Starting out for the war with a 

 picked band, he was surprised to hear, on 

 reaching Cataracouy, that the French 

 were negotiating ]ieace with the Iroquois, 

 who were about to send envoys to Mont- 

 real with hostages from each tribe. (Vjii- 

 cealing his surprise and chagrin, he 

 secretly determined to intercept the em- 

 bassy. Departing as though to return 

 to his own country in compliance with 

 the admonition of the French comman- 

 dant, he placed his men in ambush and 

 made prisoners of the members of the 

 Iroquois mission, telling the chief of the 

 embassy that the French had commis- 

 sioned him to surprise and destroy the 

 party. Keeping only one iirisoner to 

 answer for the death of a Huron who 

 was killed in the fight, he set the others 

 free, saying that he hojied they would 

 rejiay the French for their treachery. 

 Taking his cajitive to Michilimcickinac, 

 lie delivered him over to the French com- 

 mander, who put him to death, having 

 no knowledge of the arrangement of 

 peace. He then released a captive Iro- 

 (|Uoiswhom he had long held at his village 

 that he might return to inform his jH'ople 

 of the act of the French (ommander. 

 An expedition of 1,200 Iroquois fell iqion 

 Montreal Aug. 25, 1689, when the French 

 felt secure in the anti ipation of peace, 

 slew hundreds of the settlers and burned 

 and sacked the place. Other posts were 

 abandoned by the French, and only the 

 excellent fortifications of others .saved 

 them from being driven out of the country. 

 Adario led a delegation of Huron chiefs 

 who went to Montreal to conclude a 

 peace, and while there he died, Aug. 1, 

 1701, and was buried by the French with 

 military honors. (f. h.) 



Adirondack (Mohawk: Hnliwn^tals, 

 'they eat trees', a name given in allusion 

 to the eating of the bark of trees in time 

 of famine. — Hewitt). The Algonquian 

 tribes n. of the St Lawrence with which 

 the Iroquois were ac()uainted, ]iarticu- 

 larly those along Ottawa and St Maurice 

 rs., who were afterward settled at Three 

 Rivers and Oka, Quebec. Jefferys in 

 1761 seems to apply the term to the Chip- 

 pewa. (.1. M. ) 



Adirondacs.— Barton, New Views, x.xxviii, 1798. 

 Adirondacks,— (^larangula (1684) quoted by Wil- 

 liams, Vermont, I, -504, 1809. Adirondaks.— Ho- 

 mann heirs map, 1756. Adirondax.— Livingston 



