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about one hundred, who are viewed as a distin^ 

 guished military order of men ; they have many 

 old men and strangers, who live amongst them, 

 amounting to nearly an equal number with the 

 Caddos. This nation has great influence over 

 the Yattassees, Nandakoes, Nabadaches, Inies>, 

 Nagogdoches, Keychies, Adaize, and Natchito- 

 ches, who all speak the Caddo language, look up 

 to them as their fathers, intermarry among them, 

 and join them in all their wars. They cultivate 

 corn, beans, pumpkins, melons, and tobacco. 



The Yattasees live on Bayau Pierre or Stony 

 creek, which falls into Red river fifty miles above 

 Natchitoches. Their village is in a large prairie 

 fifty miles above Natchitoches, and about midway 

 to the Caddos. They are surrounded by a set- 

 tlement of French families ; but the Spanish 

 government exercises jurisdiction over this set- 

 tlement, where they keep a guard of a non-com- 

 missioned officer, and eight soldiers. The French 

 formerly had a station and factory here, and 'an- 

 other on the Sabine, about one hundred north' 

 west of this settlement. Of the ancient Yattassees, 

 there are about eight men remaining, and twenty- 

 five women, besides children ; but a number of 

 men of other nations have intermarried, and live 

 with. them. They live on rich land; raise plenty 

 of corn, beans, tobacco, and other vegetables : 

 have horses, cattle, hogs, and poultry. 



The Nandakoes live on the Sabine river, sixty 

 or seventy miles to the westward, near where the 



