2g4 Hijlorical yournaî of 



Smell, and the Shape of its Leaves, appeared to me to be much 

 like the Walnut-Trees of Europe. 



The Acimine is a Fruit of the Length of three or four Inches, 

 and an Inch Diameter : Its Pulp is tender, fomething fweetifli, 

 and full of a Seed like that of the Water Melon. The Acimm 

 Tree does not grow large, nor very high. All thofe I have 

 fecn, are little more than Shrubs of a brittle Wood. Its Bark is 

 thin : The Leaves are as long and large as thofe of the Chef- 

 nut-Tree, but of a darker Green. 



TLt 'Piahimine is of the Shape, and a little bigger than s 

 -Danifi ii: Its Skin is tender, its S ubflance watery, its Colour 

 rfed ; and it has a very delicate Tafte. It has Seeds which dif- 

 fer in nothing from thofe of the Aciminey but in being fmaller. 

 The Savages make a Pafte of this Fruit, and form little Loaves 

 of it aboat an Inch thick, and of the Confiftence of a dry'd Pear. 

 The Tade at liril feems a little infipid, but one grows eafily 

 iîs*d to it. They are very nourifliing, and a fovereign Remedy, 

 it is faid, againil a Loofenefs and the Bloody-Flux. The Pia- 

 kimine Tree is a line Tree, as high as our common Plumb- 

 Treçs : Its Leaves have five Points: Its Wood is tolerably 

 har.d, and its Bark very rough. 

 -The Ofoiges^ a pretty numerous Nation, fettled on the Side of 

 Farh^' F"oi)h ^ River that bears their Name, and which 

 arious runs into ihQ Mi^ouri, about forty Leagues 



are /eme^ from its Jandion with the MiMppi, fend 

 m the M.noi n, ^^^^^ ^.^^ ^ Year to fing the Calumet 

 ^nditshnrvtrons, the Kafiafquias, and are adualiy 



there atprefent. I have alfo juft now feen a Mijfoiirite Woman, 

 who told me that her Nation is the firil we meet with going up 

 the Mijjûuri, from which Ihe has the Name we have given her-, 

 for Want of knowing her true Name. It is fituated So Leagues 

 from the Corfl-aence of that River with xki^MtJfiffippi* 



Higher up v^e find the Can/ex, ; then the Oâotatas^ which 

 fome call MaSïctatas ; then the xijcuez^ and then the Pants ^ a 

 yery populous Nation, divided into feveral Cantons, which have 

 Names very different from each other. This Woman has con* 

 Srmed to me what I had heard from the ^ioux^ that the MrJJhurs 

 rifes out of fome naked Mountains, very high, behind which 

 there is a great River, which probably rifes from them alfb, and 

 which runs to the Well. This Tellimony carries fome Weight, 

 becaufeof all the Savages which we know, none travel farther 

 than the Mijfouritsu 



Ail the People I have mentioned, inhabit the Weft Side of 

 T) f f Mijfouriy except the Ajouez, which are on 



, T^M'/fJ' --^ the Eaft Side, Neighbours of the Sioux, and 

 the mx^m^^x, ^j^^.^ ^jj.^g^ Among the Rivers which run 

 uboye the im- into theM/^///, above the River of the //- 

 Umis^ one of the moft confiderabie is the Ri* 



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