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amount of the thousand dollars in merchandise, 

 who repaired to the nation, and after he had found 

 her, purchased her ransom ; but to his great sur- 

 prise, she refused to return with him to her fath- 

 er, and sent by him the following message : that 

 the Indians had disfigured her face, by tattooing 

 it according to their fancy and ideas of beauty, 

 and a young man of them had taken her for his 

 wife, by whom she believed herself pregnant ; 

 that she had become reconciled to her mode of 

 life, and was well treated by her husband ; and 

 that she should be more unhappy by returning to 

 her father, under these circumstances, than by 

 remaining where she was. Which message was 

 conveyed to her father, who rewarded the trader 

 by a present of three hundred dollars more for 

 his trouble and fidelity ; and that, at the time of 

 relating this account, his daughter was living with 

 her Indian husband, in the nation, by whom she 

 had had three children. 



The Natchitoches nation formerly lived, where 

 the town of Natchitoches is now situated, which 

 took its name from them. About one hundred 

 years ago, when the French began their settle- 

 ment in this town, this nation had six hundred 

 men. They became attached to French people, 

 and have ever been their steady and faithful 

 friends. After the massacre of the French inhab- 

 itants of Natchez, by the Natchez Indians, in 

 1728, those Indiansjled from the French, after 

 the French were reinforced, and came up Red 



