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 A little farther up the river he notes that there had formerly been
a small village of Acolapissa, which did not last long. It was where
M. le Marquis d'Ancenis, afterward Duke of Bethune, had vainly
tried to start a settlement, and lay 6 leagues below the town of the
Houma.
 The Acolapissa appear again in the journal translated by Claiborne
and have been referred to in treating of the Bayogoula." From what
is said there and their subsequent disappearance, it is evident that
they united with the Houma. In 1758 De Kerl6rec refers to them as
one of the tribes destroyed by the neighborhood of the French and
trade in liquor.b In 1907 an old Houma woman interviewed by the
writer seemed to remember this tribe, but possibly she did not under-
stand the question.
 THE TANGIPAHOA
 In 1682, 2 leagues below the Quinipissa town, but on the opposite-
 i. e., eastern-side of the Mississippi, La Salle passed a town that had
 been plundered and burned not long before, and contained three
 cabins full of dead bodies. Some of the relations give the name of
 this town as Tangibao,c and some as Maheonala or Mahehoualaima.!
 Perhaps the latter was the name of the town and the former that of
 the tribe. The perpetrators of this deed appear to have been the
 Houma, and Iberville was informed that all who had not been killed
 in the fight had been carried off prisoners by that tribe." At the
 same time there is uncertainty as to the tribe that he and the Indians
 were referring to, since he states that they denied the Tangipahoa
 ever to have had a village on the Mississippi. At any rate, we know
 that the Tangipahoa river was so called by the neighboring Indians
 in his time,t and it appears probable that a part at least of the people
 dwelling there had moved across to the Mississippi and finally come
 to this tragic end. P6nicaut interpreted the name to mean white
 maize," and Allen Wright translated it to Gatschet, "those who
 gather maize stalks," but Mr. Bushnell was told by the Choctaw
 living in that country that it means corn cob." Gatschet is cer-
 tainly wrong, however, in identifying them with the little Tainsas
 referred to by Iberville." It is most likely that, as stated by Iber-
 ville on Indian authority, they had formed a seventh town of the
 Acolapissa, since they lived in the immediate neighborhood of those
 people.i
 See pp. 278-270.
 SCompte Rendu Cong. Internat. des Aln6r., 15th sess., I, 75.
 c Margry, D6couvertes, I, 004; French, list. Coll. La.., 63, 1840.
 a French, Ilst. Coll. La., 48, 1840; Margry, Decpuvertes, II, 100, 108.
 e Margry, Ddeouvertes, iv, 108, 109, 1880.
 f P6nicaut in Margry, Decouvertes, v, 387, 1883.
 0 Gatschet, Creek lig. Leg., I, 34, 1884.
 hGatschet's Int. to the Taensa Language, ix, Bibliothique Linguistique Americaine,
 XVIII.
 i Margry, Decouvortes, iv, 168, 1880.