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Trench formerly had a station and factory. A 

 few years ago they suffered very much by the 

 small pox, and are reduced to about forty men. 

 They consider themselves the same as the Cad- 

 dos, with whom they intermarry ; visit one 

 another in the greatest harmony ; have the same 

 manners, customs and attachments. 



The Adaize live about forty miles from Natch- 

 itoches, on a lake called Lac Macdon, which 

 communicates with the division of Red river, that 

 passes by Bayau Pierre. They live where their 

 ancestors have lived, time immemorial ; the near- 

 est nation to the old Spanish fort, or Mission 

 Adaize ; only twenty men of them remain, but 

 there are more women. Their language differs 

 from all other, and is said to be so difficult to 

 speak or understand, that no nation can speak 

 ten words of it j but they all speak Caddo, and 

 most of them French ; to whom they were always 

 attached, and joined them against the Natchez 

 Indians, after the massacre of Natchez, in 

 1728. While the Spaniards occupied Adaize, 

 some priests attempted to proselyte them to the 

 Roman Catholic religion, but without the smallest 

 success. 



The Aliche, pronounced Eyeish, reside near 

 Nacogdoches. They were some years ago a 

 considerable nation, and lived on a bayau of the 

 same, name, about twelve miles west of the Sa- 

 bine river, but the small pox destroyed the most 

 of them. The nation is now almost extinct, hav- 



