MORGAN, ] MARQUETTE’S ACCOUNT, ae 
these tribes and its universality. They went to a village of seven houses 
of the Chilluckittequaw tribe and to the house of the chief. “ He received 
us kindly,” they remark, ‘and set before us pounded fish, filberts, nuts, 
the berries of the sacacommis, and white bread made of roots. * * * 
The village is a part of the same nation with the village we passed above, 
the language of the two being the same, and their houses of similar form 
and materials, and calculated to contain about thirty souls. The inhabit- 
ants were unusually hospitable and good humored.”? While among the 
Shoshonees, and before arriving at the Columbia, they “reached an Indian 
lodge of brush inhabited by seven families of the Shoshonees. They 
behaved with great civility, and gave the whole party as much boiled sal- 
mon as they could eat, and added a present of several dried salmon and a 
considerable quantity of chokechinies ;”” and Captain Lewis remarks of 
the same people, that ‘‘an Indian invited him into his bower, and gave him 
a small morsel of boiled antelope, and a piece of fresh salmon roasted. 
This was the first salmon he had seen, and perfectly satisfied him that he 
was now on the waters of the Pacific.” Thus far among the tribes we 
find a literal repetition of the rule of hospitality as practiced by the Iro- 
quois. Mr. Dall, speaking of the Aleiits, says, ‘hospitality was one of 
their prominent traits,”* and Powers, of the Pomo Indians of California 
remarks, that they would always divide the last morsel of dried salmon 
’ 
with genuine savage thriftlessness,” and of the Mi-oal’-a-wa-gun, that, 
“like all California Indians, they are very hospitable.” 
Father Marquette and Lieutenant Joliet, who first discovered the Upper 
Mississippi in 1673, had friendly intercourse with some of the tribes on its 
eastern bank, and were hospitably entertained by them. ‘‘ The council being 
over, we were invited to a feast, which consisted of four dishes. The first 
was a dish of sagamite—that is, some Indian meal boiled in water and 
seasoned with grease—the master of ceremonies holding a spoonful of it, 
which he put thrice into my mouth and then did the like to M. Joliet. The 
! Travels, etc., p. 375-376. 
2Th. p. 288. 
3 Ib, p. 268. 
4Onthe Remains of Later Prehistoric Man, Alaska Ter., Smithsonian Cont., No. 318, p.3. Travels, 
ete., Phila. ed., 1796, p. 171. 
5 Powell’s Contributions to North American Ethnology, Power's Tribes of California, vol. iii, p. 153, 
