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6/ The above is substancially as I received it from Colo. Hawkins whose impression was, from their story, that they were driven from their seats by a people expelled from Mexico by Cortez. If the story I have given you will furnish any light on Indian history, to yourself or other lovers of antiquity, I shall be gratified, I am Dear Sir respectfully your Obt. servant F0. Iove?

Dr. W. Byrd Powell, New Orleans. I have now given you the outline of my Indian knowledge - were it requisite I could give many minutia about the southern tribes; also much historical matter.

I promised you some traditions of the Natchez Indians - you shall now have them. The Choctaw tradition of the French massacre at Natchez ez Miss. Communicated to John Fletcher Esq. of Natchez by Colo. Nail a Choctaw Chief. The former imparted the same to me, in Natchez, March 1835.

The word Natchez signifies a knobby or hilly country, such as that inhabited by the Natchez tribe of Indians and which extended from the Slunville? to Chittalawsa on the Miss. and back from 10 to 30 miles.