' Travels in North America. 307 



goes up the River of the Akanfas with Difficulty, becaufe there 

 are many Falls or Torrents in it, and in many Places the 

 Waters are often fo low, that there is a NeceiTity to tow the 

 Petiaugres. 



The Separation of its two Branches is made at feven Leagues 

 j^.^ ^ .J above the fécond, and the fmallell of its two 

 r ulT / Mouths, but only at two Leagues above 

 cj tbe /ilcanias. ^^^^ receives a fine River that comes 



from the Country of the Ofages^ and which they call La Riviere 

 blanche (the White Ri^erJ, Two Leagues higher are the Tori* 

 7nas, and the Topingas, who make but one Village. Two 

 Leagues higher are the Sothouis. The Kappas are a little farther. 

 This Nation was very numerous in the Time of Ferdinand ds 

 Soto, and even when M. de la Sale finifhed the Difcovery of the 

 Miffijp.ppi, Over againft their Village, we fee the fad Ruins 

 of Mr. Z^ïw's Grant, of which the Company remains the Pro- 

 prietors. 



It was here that the nine Thoufand Germans were to be fent, 

 M La \ which were raifed in the Palatinate, and 

 Grant* ^ '^^^ great Pity they never came here. There 



is not perhaps in all Louijtana a Country more 

 fit, after that of the llUncis, to produce all Sorts of Grain, and 

 to feed Cattle. But Mr. La^ was ill ufed, as well as the greateft 

 Part of the other Grantees. It is very probable, that in a long 

 Time they will not agajn make the like Levies of Men ; they 

 have Need of them in the Kingdom, and indeed it is pretty 

 common among us to fquare our Meafures according to the Suc- 

 cefs of fuch Enterprises, inftead of obferving what their Mif- 

 carriage was owing to, in order to corred what was before done 

 amifs. 



I found the Village of the Ouyapes in the greateft Defolatîon. 

 ^ 7. Not lone fince, a Frenchman paffino: this Way 



ihfl^lXr'''^ was attacked with the Small-Pox : The Dif- 

 " ^* temper was communicated prefently to fome 



Savages, and foon after to the whole Village. The Burying- 

 Place appears like a Foreft of Poles and Polls newly fet up, and 

 on which there hangs all Manner of Things : There is every 

 Thing which the Savages ufe. 



I had fet up my Tent pretty near the Village, and all the 

 Night I heard weeping; the Men do this as well as the Wo- 

 men : They repeated without ceafing Nihahani, as the Illinois 

 do, and in the fame Tone. I alfo faw in the Evening a Wo- 

 man, who wept over the Grave, of her Son, and who poured 

 upon it a great Quantity of Sagamitty. Another had made a Fire 

 by a neighbouring Tomb, in all Appearence to warm the Dead* 

 The Akan/as are reckoned to be the talleft and beft fliaped of 



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