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 on the shores of the bay which bears their name, which signifies Bread Nation.
 This nation is composed of but one village, containing at most 30 cabins.
 Some Canadians have established themselves near them, and they live together
 like brothers, because the Canadians, being naturally peaceful, and under-
 standing, besides, the character of the natives, know how to live with the
 nations of America; but what contributes principally to this durable peace
 is that no soldier frequents this nation. In speaking of the Natchez I have
 shown how the presence of soldiers destroys the good understanding which
 ought to be preserved with these people in order to obtain the advantages hoped
 for."
 This was one of the tribes that in 1764 moved from Mobile to
 Louisiana. From H-utchins's narrative it appears that they settled
 first on the west side of the Mississippi not far from Red river, where
 they had a village counting 20 warriors," but in 1787 permission was
 granted them to locate at the confluence of the Rigolet du Bon Dieu
 and Red river, a permission confirmed in 1792.' Their territory
 was bounded above by Bayou de la Coeur and below by Bayou
 Philippe, which falls into Red river fronl the left in descending.,
 Louis de Blanc, their chief, occupied an eminence at the upper end of
 this territory, but their principal village was on a point called Mount
 Pleasant." In 1795 the Baron de Carondelet desired that the Pasca-
 goula should be assembled, elect a chief, and form a new village on
 (atahoula bayou,c but instead they determined to move to Bayou
 Boenf, and settled on the Choctaw land there the same year.' Land
 was granted them by a body of Choctaw, who had been the first to
 make this bayou their home."' Just below them were the Biloxi, who
had preceded them by a year or two. Early in the nineteenth cen-
tury the Pascagoula and Biloxi sold their lands to Miller and Fulton,
two of the early settlers of Rapides parish, and the sale was confirmed
May 4, 1805. The Pascagoula signers were the chiefs, Big Bread,
La Culotte, Ajadonah, Cosauh, Ningo, and Big Head." At that time
the two tribes and the Choctaw near them numbered not less than
500 souls." C Sibley, writing at about this time, but basing his state-
ments on information gathered prior to 1798, has this to say of them:
 PASCAGOLAS, live in a small village on Red river, about 60 miles below Natchi-
toches; are emigrants from Pascagola river, in west Florida: 25 men of them
only remaining; speak Mobilian, but have a language peculiar to themselves;
most of them speak and understand French. They raise good crops of corn and
garden vegetables; have cattle, horses, and poultry plenty. Their horses are
much like [those of] the poorer kind of French inhabitants on the river and
[they] appear to live about as well./
 I)u Pratz, Iist. de La Louisiane, I1, 214-215, 1758.
 SIIutchins, Hist. Narr. La., 45.
 SAm. State Papers, Public Lands, i1, 781.
 SIbid., 782.
 Ibid., 794.
 SAnn. 9th Cong., 2d sess., 1087, 1852.
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