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kindly lent me by Dr. 0. H. Fowler, of this city. Whether it be a Choctaw or 

 a Natchez, I cannot determine, but it is probably the latter. 



The Waxsaws, according to Lawson, resorted to a somewhat similar device. 

 " They use a roll which is placed on the babe's forehead, it being laid with its 

 back on a flat board, and swaddled down hard thereon, from one end of this engine 

 to the other." ^'-The instrument," he adds, "is a sort of press that is let out and 

 in, more or less, according to the discretion of the nurse, in which they make the 

 child's head flat : it makes the eyes stand a prodigious way asunder, and the hair 

 hang over the forehead like the eaves of a house, which seems very frightful."* 

 Finally, it seems certain that the Katawbas on the east, and the Attakapas on the 

 west side of the Mississippi, practised a similar usage. 



THE CHETIMACHES. 



Near the Natchez was another powerful though not numerous nation, called 

 the Chetimaches. Du Pratz states that the latter are a branch of the Natchez, 

 who have always looked upon them as their brethren.f But this affinity appears 

 to have been of a social nature only, for Mr. Gallatin observes that he could find 

 no analogies in their respective languages, and their customs appear to have been 

 altogether dissimilar. 



* Hist, of Carolina, p. 33. 



tHist of Louisiana, p. 314. 



