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eastern part of Terre Bonne. Dr. Swanton was accompanied and 

 his work greatly facilitated by Mr. Ernest Coycault, a Creole living 

 in New Orleans and married to one of these Indians. The brother- 



FiG. 104. — Cut-off at site of old Houma village, Point au Chien, La. 



Fig. 10 = 



-Method of constructing a palmetto roof. 

 Point au Chien, Terre Bonne, La. 



Indian house at 



in-law of Air. Coycault acted as pilot, guiding Dr. Swanton to all of 

 the more important Indian settlements between New Orleans and 

 Point au Chien where the oldest Houma town in the region is said 

 to have been situated until destroyed by three huge waves from the 



