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these two syllables when they speak together." Wllite-earth has
usually been identified as the White-apple, or Apple village, and if
this is accepted, as seems reasonable under the circumstances,' we
must expect, to find in Jenzenaque the village of the Walnuts or
Hickories. While such appears probable on circumstantial evidence,
the word Jenzenaquc does not resemble the Natchez equivalents for
either walnut' or hickory' (yu''fta, walnut '; a'ca, 'hickory').
Tsi'nits-nA'gi, 'childish,' was the nearest combination of sounds
my Natchez informant could -,i'_-,( for this, but it can hardly be
regarded seriously. The White Apple village and the village of the
Gris can not be satisfactorily identified with any names ill Iber-
ville's list, and the same is true of the Flour village. The native
name of the Great village is never given by later writers, but it was
evidently that originally known as Natchez, the Nach6s of Iberville,
the original significance of which can not now be determined. Gats-
chet's derivation from the Chitinlacha or the Mobilian trade jargon
has no solid basis.

 I'YSICALh AND MORAL ('CHARACTERISTICS

 The Natchez, like many other American tribes, impressed travelers
as tall, strong, robust, and "of a proud air." c They are," say;-
PWnicaut, fairly handsome in the face and their women also. They
have rather agreeable voices, not speaking so strongly from the throat
as the other savages." d ('harlevoix remarks: The women are pretty
well shaped for savages, and neat enough in their dress and every-
thing they ldo," and Dumont gives similar testimony. Besides,"
he says:
 All these savage women have very well-proportiohed figures and are gener-
:!ly quite agreeablee in appearance, but sole more than others, according to
difference in nationality. Among the Paskagonlas and the Billoxis, for example,
they are very negligent of themselves and are not extremely neat, while [the
women] of the Natchez take very good care of their appearance and pride them-
selves on an extreme cleanliness.f
 Du Pratz says:
 All the natives of America in general are very well formed. One sees very
few under 5j feet, and many taller. The leg is made as if in a mold. It is
sinewy and the flesh on it is firm. They have long thighs, the head erect
 SDu Pratz, Hist. de La Louisiane, II, 222. Gatschet strives to refer this word to a
French origin, but this seems improbable.
 'A village called White Earth is rarely mentioned, but inasmuch as this designa-
tion was subsequently given to one of the two large concessions on St. Catharine's creek
it is possible that it was earlier applied to a village on the same site. In that case
it would have been distinct from White Apple village, which is placed on Dumont's
map higher up near the Grand village. Possibly White Earth was the name of a
chief rather than a village, and this is intimated in one place by Do Richebourg himself.
 'See the Luxembourg Msmoire sur La Loulsiane, 1:15, 1752.
 d Margry, DL)ouvertes. v, 440.
 French, Hist. Coll. La., 165, 1851.
 I Dumont, Mem. [list. sur La Louisiane, I, 139, 1753.


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