VIEWS OF LOUISIANA. 
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Lower Louisiana? when first discovered, was inhabited by 
very numerous nations; the accounts given by early writers are 
almost incredible. Charlevoix states that about the year 1560, 
there were many powerful nations in what was then called Flori¬ 
da. Qutina, Timogoa, and Saturiora, the neighbours of Mons. 
Ribaut, could each command eight hundred or a thousand war¬ 
riors. Onothaca, and Calos, one on the eastern, the other on the 
■we stern side of the Peninsula, were still more powerful. In 
1565, M. Laudamere sentthirty men to assist Outina, against ano¬ 
ther chief, named Patanow, whom they encountered and defeat- 
ed, his force consisting of two thousand men. The Baya goulas 
who were situated near the mouth of the Mississippi, when vis¬ 
ited by M. D’Iberville, are described as having seven hundred 
families in their principal town. Charlevoix gives a curious de¬ 
scription of their temple. 
In Upper Louisiana (Ter. Missouri) there are several small 
bands scattered through the settlements, and in the White river 
country. Near Apple creek there are two villages of Shawanese, 
a sober orderly people, and another of the same on the Mara- 
mek. In the White river country, there have been of late consi¬ 
derable emigrations of Cherokees, who are said to claim it— 
Straggling families may be seen at all seasons of the year, en¬ 
camped near the villages, and on the banks of the Mississippi, 
who subsist by vending the produce of their hunting to the 
whites. These stragglers are usually a miserable and degraded 
race, lazy, and filthy in the extreme. 
