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Review of Science and Industry, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 

 VOL. V. MARCH, 1882. NO. 1 



HISTORY. 



EARLY NOTICES OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AND INDIANS. 



(third paper.) 

 by john p. jones, keytesville, mo. 



Father James Marquette, who, n^ company with JoUet of Quebec, explored 

 the Mississippi from the Wisconsin to the Arkansas, in 1673, did not mention 

 the Missouri in his narrative of the voyage except under the name of Pekitanoui, 

 but on his map accompanying the relation, the river is located for a part of its 

 course, and in nearly their right positions the villages of the Missouri Indians 

 are mentioned under the names of Ouchage (Osage), and Emissourites (Mis- 

 souris). 



This map is still preserved with the original relation in St. Mary's College, 

 at Montreal, Canada, and bears, so far as I have been able to discover, the first 

 mention by name of the Missouri Indians. That part of Marquette's map which 

 refers to the country west of the Mississippi must have been based on information 

 derived solely from the Indians, but subsequent investigations have proven its cor- 

 rectness. The first explorers of the Missouri found the tribes, located by Mar- 

 quette on the course of that river, to be nearly as he placed them, which is as 

 follows: Ouchage (Osage), Emissourites (Missouris), Kansas, Otontanta (Otoes), 

 Maha (Omahas), Pana (Pawnees) and Pahoutet (Pah Ute). 



Succeeding Marquette and JoUet, there came to the Illinois country in 1680, 

 to explore the Mississippi Valley, Robert Cavelier, de la Salle, a true rover and ex- 



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