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thwarted by the vigilance of La Salle. Afterward they sent messen-
gers to the Koroa and Natchez, who appear to have been their allies
at the time, to incite them also against the strangers." On his
descent of the river in 1686 Tonti found no one at the Quinipissa
landing, but on his return the chief met him with a calumet and made
peace.'
 Thirteen years later, when Iberville ascended the Mississippi from
 the sea, he hunted in vain for them, and on this and other grounds
 was disposed to accuse the chroniclers of the earlier expeditions of
 mendacity. He ultimately learned, however, that the tribe in ques-
 tion was identical with the Mugulasha, whom lie had found occupy-
 ing one town with another tribe called Bayogoula, about 20 leagues
 above their ancient settlement.c The account of this event obtained
 by Sauvolle through one of Tonti's companions and confirmed in
 part by the Mugulasha chief was, however, somewhat different. It
 was to the effect that the Quinipissa tribe had become so reduced by
 disease that the remnant had united with another tribe known as
 Mugulasha, who had accepted their chief as their own on account of
 his prominence." This seems a rather unlikely proceeding, though it
 is supported to some extent by the different names of the tribe before
 and after joining the Bayogoula. Of the identity of the Mugulasha
 chief with that of the Quinipissa there can be no doubt, and that
 he had formerly lived nearer the sea is indicated by Iberville's state-
 ment that the chief of the Mugulasha had made him master of all
 his village and sold the other places toward the sea where he had
 formerly had villages." One of these was probably the site occupied
 by the Quinipissa in Tonti's time, and its location agrees very closely
 with that of a place where the Quinipissas formerly had a village,"
 which Iberville describes as one league and a half from the place
 where he reached the Mississippi in crossing from Lake Pontchar-
 train. This must have been in the vicinity of Hahnville.t
 In May, 1700, shortly after Iberville's second visit, the existence
 of this tribe as a nation was put to an end by their fellow-townsmen,
 the Bayogoula, who rose upoh them and killed many.g Gravier
 would have us believe that more than 200 were destroyed, but this
 hardly appears probable.' The majority of the women and children
were undoubtedly spared and adopted and the warriors alone could
 -Margry, Decouvertcs, I, 500, 563. 564, 004-606 ; II, 210; French, Iist. Coll. La.,
03-65, 1846.
 French, Hist. Coll. La., 6S, 1846.
 SLa Harpe, Jour. Hist., 10, 1831.
 d Margry, Dcouvertes, iv, 453, 1880.
 Ibid., 429, 430.
 f Ibid., 399.
 o Ibid., 420.
 SJes. Rel., LXV, 157.