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Chitimacha war broke out, in 1707, they and the Bayogoula furnished
three-fourths of the native contingent in the first Chitimacha ex-
pedition, and the former acted as guides for the party." In 1718
they came to the Mississippi to live, and subsequently remained on
or near it, instead of retiring westward among the Chitimacha or
the Atakapa." Finally, there is reason to believe that they united
with the other small Muskhogean tribes of the lower Mississippi, the
Houmia, Acolapissa, and Bayogoula, and accompanied them to the
seacoast of the present Terre Bonne and La Fourche parishes. There
a lake still bears their name on the atlases, although it appears to
be unknown by that term in the immediate locality. When we add
to these facts Iberville's statement, above quoted, that there was little
difference between the languages spoken by the Bayogoula, Houma,
Chickasaw, Acolapissa, and that of these three tribes there appears
to be very good circumstantial grounds for considering them Mus-
khogean. If not, they would form the only exception to the correct-
ness of Iberville's statement; at the same time it must not be for-
gotten that Bienville. from whom the information came, had spent
but a few hours among the Washa, who received him in an unfriendly
manner, and that he had not apparently met any representatives of
the other two tribes.
 On Pascagoula river, above the Biloxi, lived the tribe from which
this stream received its name, and the Moctobi. The Moctobi are
referred to only in the earliest documents, and probably formed a
subdivision of the Biloxi, or Pascagoula, unless, indeed, it was a
synonym for the name of one of those tribes. Although the Pas-
cagoula are frequently mentioned, not the slightest hint is given
regarding their language, and since the Biloxi have been discovered
to be Siouan it is now commonly thought that the intimate associa-
tion of the Pascagoula with them argued for a similar origin. No
living Pascagoula are known to the Biloxi still in Rapides parish,
but a considerable number of them moved to Angelina county, Tex.,
before the year 1817," and settled not far from the Alibamu. Hoping
that a few of these might still be found, the writer, in November,
1908, stopped at Livingston, Tex., to look for them. By the merest
accident he had the good fortune to meet near that place two Indians
of Pascagoula descent, who, although brothers, are called by different
names-Tom Johnson and Sam Lockhart. The father of these men
was a Biloxi, pronounced by them Atabal6'ktci; their mother, a Pas-
cagoula, and they asserted that there were no other descendants of the
latter tribe among the Indians of Polk county. The rest they declared
 "La LIarpe, .our. list., 102.
 Magrgry, DIcouvertes, v, 557.
 See p. 27.
 d Morse, Report to the Sec. of War, 37:1, 1822.