ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 5 
memoir by the French captain Berenger, containing, besides 
historical and ethnological information, vocabularies of the 
extinct Karankawa and Akokisa tribes. A Spanish census 
of the Indians of Florida after the period of the English 
invasions should also be mentioned. For some months after 
his return Dr. Swanton was engaged in adding to his mono- 
graph the historical notes thus obtained, and in copying 
and translating the more important parts of the manu- 
scripts mentioned, including all of the Berenger memoir. 
Although Dr. Swanton’s History of the Southeastern 
Tribes had been completed a year ago, so far as the informa- 
tion was then available, the manuscript discoveries de- 
scribed have enabled him to augment and to improve it 
substantially, and more recently he has obtained some 
supplementary notes from the Louisiana Historical Society. 
The preparation of the maps to accompany the monograph, 
chiefly from early sources, did not progress as satisfactorily 
as was hoped, owing largely to pressure of other illustration 
work, but they are now practically finished. 
Dr. Swanton’s second paper, also referred to in last year’s 
report, remains as then practically complete so far as the 
available material is concerned, but it awaits further data 
respecting the social organization of the Chickasaw and the 
Choctaw. A third paper, on the religious beliefs and medical 
practices of the Creeks and their congeners, has been brought 
to the same stage as the last, namely, with all the available 
material incorporated and arranged, and the footnotes added. 
With a view of furnishing the basis of a general study of 
the social organization of the tribes north of Mexico, Dr. 
Swanton spent a few weeks collecting material bearing on 
Indian economic life, but this has been laid aside tempo- 
rarily on account of the greater urgency of a closer com- 
parative study of the Indian languages of the southeastern 
part of the United States, particularly as indications of 
relationship between some of them have already been noted. 
As a basis for this work Dr. Swanton has recorded a com- 
parative vocabulary of Creek, Choctaw, Alabama, Hitchiti, 
Natchez, Tunica, Chitimacha, Atakapa, Tonkawa, Come- 
crudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, and Karankawa. Of these 
