S 1 o 



SrONDY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 20 

 miles S. of Ongole. 



SIONE, a river of America, which runs into lake Erie, 

 N. lat. 42° 22'. W. long. 82° 52'. 



SIONI, a town of Georgia, in the province of Carduel ; 

 90 miles N.N.W. of Teflis. 



SIOPE, a river of Brazil, which runs into the Atlantic, 

 S. lat. 3'^ 20'. W. long. 40'. 



SIORING, a town of North Jutland ; 4 miles N.W. of 

 Tided. 



SIOTO. See Scioto. 



SIOTOSTA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland ; 

 49 miles E.S.E. of Gotheborg. 



SIOUEN, 3 town of China, of the third rank, in Quang- 

 tong ; 32 miles S. of Louy. 



SIOULE, a river of France, which runs into the AUier, 

 two miles N. of St. Pour^ain, in the department of the 

 AUier. 



SIOU-OUEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Koei-tcheou ; 15 miles N.N.W. of Koei-yang. 



SIOUX, a river of Louifiana, which runs into the Mif- 

 fouri, N. lat. 38=42'. W. long. 93° 17'. 



Sioux, a denomination that diftinguifhes Indians of North 

 America, who inhabit the territories, about the rivers Mifli- 

 fippi and MifTouri. The dread of this powerful nation is 

 extended over all the other favage nations, from the conflu- 

 ence of the Miffifippi and Millburi, to the Raven river on 

 the former, and to the Snake Indians on the latter. Among 

 thefe nations, however, the Sioux have many allies ; but 

 the Chippeways are an exception, as they have maintained 

 with them a long conteft ; and, indeed, by means of their 

 fmall lakes, water-courfes, and impenetrable morafles and 

 fwamps, they bid defiance to the attacks of their neighbours. 

 Of the Sioux nation there are different bands, that are dif- 

 tinguifhed among themfelves. The firft of thefe compre- 

 hends the Minowa Kantong, or Gens de Lac, who extend 

 from the Prairie des Chiens to Le Prairie du Francois, 35 

 miles up the St. Peters. This band is again fubdivided into 

 four claffc?, under different chiefs. The firft fubdivifion 

 hunts on both fides of the Miflifippi and its confluent ftreams, 

 from the Prairie des Chiens to the river Du Boeuf. The fe- 

 eond fubdivifion refides near the head of the lake Pepin, and 

 hunts from the Riviere du Boeuf near to the river St. Croix. 

 The third fubdivifion refides between the Riviere au Canon and 

 the entrance of the St. Peters. Its principal hunting ground 

 is on the St. Croix. The fourth fubdivifii>n is fituated from 

 the entrance of St. Peters to the Prairie des Frangois ; they 

 have a village nine miles up the St. Peters, on the N. fide. The 

 band Minowa Kantong is reputed the braveft of all the 

 Sioux. The fecond band of Sioux includes the Wa(hpe- 

 tong, or Gens des Fieulles, who inhabit the country from 

 the Prairie des Frangois near to Roche Blanche, on the St. 

 Peters. They hunt on the St. Peters, and alfo in the Miffi- 

 fippi up Rum river, and fometimes follow the buffalo 

 over the plains. The third band comprifes the Suffitongs, 

 who extend from the Roche Blanche to Lac de Grofs 

 Roche, on the river St. Peters. They are fubdivided into 

 the Cawrees and Suffitongs proper, both of whom hunt E. 

 of the Miffifippi, and up that river, as far as the Riviere 

 de Corbeau. The fourth great band comprehends the Yanc- 

 tongs, who are difperfed from the Montaignes de la Prairie, 

 which extend from St. Peters to the Miilouri, to the river 

 De Moyen. Thefe are fubdivided into the Yanftongs of 

 the north and thofe of the fouth. Thefe are the molt un- 

 fettled and erratic of all the Sioux ; fo that they are fome- 

 times found on the borders of the Lower Red river, fome- 

 times on the MifTouri, and on thofe immenfe plains that lif be- 



SIP 



tween the two rivers. The fifth band includes the Titongj, 

 who are difperfed on both fides of the Mifiburi. The 

 fixth and fmalleft band of the Sioux includes the Wafhpe- 

 coute, who refide generally on the lands welt of the Miffi- 

 fippi, between that river and the Millburi. They gene- 

 rally hunt on the head of the river De Moyen. Thefe 

 are reprefented as the moll ftupid and inaftive of all the 

 Sioux. 



The Minowa Kantongs are the only Sioux who ufe ca- 

 noes, and they are by far the moit civihzed ; being the only 

 Sioux who have ever built log huts, or cultivated any fpe. 

 cies of vegetables. This band is entirely armed with fire- 

 arms. The Wafhpetong are a roving band ; they leave the 

 river St. Peters in April, and do not return from the plains 

 until the middle of Augult. The Suffitongs of Roche I 

 Blanche bear the charafter of being the moft evil-difpofed ' 

 Indians on the river St. Peters. They likewife follow the 

 buffalo in the fpring and fummer months. The Suffitongs 

 of the Lac de Grofs Roche bear the charafter of good 

 hunters and brave warriors. The Yanftongs and Titongs 

 are the moft independent Indians ; as they follow the buf- 1 

 falo where chance direfts ; clothing themfelves with the fkin, 

 and making their lodges, bridles, and faddles of the fame 

 materials, the flefh of the animal furnilhing them with 

 food. 



The claims of limits of the Sioux nation are allowed by 

 all their neighbours to commence at the Prairie des Chiens, 

 and to afcend the MilSfippi, on both fides, to the Riviere de 

 Corbeau, up the river to its fource ; from thence to the 

 fource of St. Peters ; from thence to the Montaigne de la 

 Prairie ; from thence to the MifTouri, down that river to the 

 Mahas, bearing thence N.E. to the fource of the river De 

 Moyen ; and from thence to the place ef commencement. 

 They alfo claim a large territory S. of the Millburi. The 

 country E. of the Miffifippi, from Rum river to the Riviere 

 de Corbeau, is likewife in difpute between them and the 

 Chippeways, and has been the fcene of many fharp encoun- 

 ters for near 150 years paft. 



The Sioux are reprefented as the moft warlike and inde- 

 pendent nation of Indians within the boundaries of the 

 United States, every paffion being fubfervient to that of 

 war ; and their leaders feel themfelves perfeftly fecure from 

 any combination that can be made againlt them. Their 

 guttural pronunciation, high cheek-bones, thin vifages, and 

 diftinft manners, together with their own traditions, fup- 

 ported by the teftimony of neighbouring nations, leave little 

 room for doubt, that they have emigrated from the N.W. 

 point of America, to which they had come from the narrow 

 flrait which in that quarter divides the two continents, and 

 that they are defcendants of a Tartarian tribe. Rke's Ac- 

 count of Expeditions to the Sources of the Miffifippi, &c. 

 Appendix to part i. 



SIPA, a town of Napaul ; gS miles N.E. of Cat- 

 mandu. 



SI PAL AY, a town on the W. coaft of the ifland of 

 Negroes. N. lat. 9° 43'. E. long. 122° 28'. 



SIPANEA, in Botany, Aubl. Guian. 147. t. 56, a 

 name of Aublet's, whofe origin or meaning does not appear. 

 The plant is fuppofed by JufTieu to be a congener of Muf. 

 Junda ; but Schreber more juftly refers it to Virecta, 

 Linn. Suppl. 17. Sec that article hereafter. 



SIPARUNA, Aubl. Guian. 864. t. 333. Jufl. 443, an 

 unexplained name for a fhrub of Guiana, whofe generic 

 charafters are not fufficiently made out to allow of its being 

 reduced by Juffieu to any of his natural orders ; nor has 

 Schreber admitted it into his Genera Plantarum. Aublet 

 refers it to the Monoecia Decandria of the Linnaean fyftem. 



Gen, 



