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told that they came back along the trail they had followed going out, 

 it is suspected that Catalte lay somewhere between Columbia and 

 the Mississippi, perhaps about Fort Necessity. 



After crossing the river just mentioned, Moscoso led his troops 

 through unoccupied country until June 20, when they reached a 

 province called Chaguate or Chaguete. In this country salt was 

 made and it may be identified quite certainly with the region about 

 Drake's Salt Works, where there are quantities of Indian potsherds. 

 Early in July they went on to another salt province, probably the 

 area about Lake Bistineau, where are also numerous Indian remains. 

 A journey of 4 days more brought the army to a province called 

 Amaye, and here we enter again into the territory of the Caddo tribes. 

 This is evident from the names given to some of them — names which 

 appear in later times, names of others interpretable in the Caddo 

 language, and the associations of still others. From Amaye they 

 went to a more important Caddo division living along a great river, 

 and this is, of course. Red River. From the distances given and 

 the time occupied in their travels, it is evident that this more im- 

 portant tribe, the Naguatex (the Namidish of later history), was liv- 

 ing above the site of Shreveport, and the place where Moscoso crossed 

 seems to have been near Miller's Bluff some miles higher. 



Here, as we gather from Biedma and the De Soto map, a sharp 

 turn was made to the southwest, they visited two poor tribes called 

 Nissohone and Lacane, and a larger one called Nondacao, and reached 

 a fourth at a considerably greater distance called Hais. These are 

 plainly the Nasoni, Nacanish, Anadarko, and Eyeish of later his- 

 tory. The three first were evidently somewhat east of the loca- 

 tions they held at the end of the seventeenth century, but the last 

 seems to have been at about the same spot, around the present San 

 Augustine. Most of these tribes were unfriendly, and it may be added 

 that the Spaniards gave them little cause to be otherwise. The 

 Eyeish fought them from their first appearance all the way to 

 their town. 



It is difficult to trace the wanderings of the Spaniards beyond this 

 point, the narratives of the expedition being themselves inconsistent, 

 but it seems probable that they worked their way slowly, and doubtless 

 circuitously, toward the southwest. First, they came to a province 

 called Soacatino which was "in the forest," and presently to a* large 

 tribe known as the Guasco, where they obtained a quantity of much- 

 needed corn. They visited two other tribes near the Guasco — ^the 

 Naquiscoga and Nagacahoz. The missionary Casanas, writing in 

 1691, gives Guasco as a Hasinai tribe and the two other names are 

 plainly Caddo. It is evident, therefore, that these were connected 

 with the Hasinai Confederation, which lay between the Neches and 



