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The Farmers generally cultivate or "raise" cotton Enough for their own [two unclear words] - which the females of their families - card & spin for rough clothing - and the deer then make "first rate" [?] "hunting teepee Coshattees, Indians [?] a community of the Natchez - they worship the Sun & Moon That a Woman of this tribe [?] or horseback - good looking and matronly - the chase - hair in one plait behind - cotton dress the Upper part kept together by a large Silver brooch -the principal parts of them live in a village below Swartwood [?] C. Chiefs visit to Galveston are a quiet orderly tribe & are captive by the [?] - grow Corn - Their Method of preparing deer skins is the following done by the women. The Men only hunt. Soaked in water for a time, the hair scraped off - rubbed with the brains of deer and [?] - then dried with Smoke of bark of trees These skins are of a tawny hue, soft and used principally for hunting drops - Some of the Indian tribes make very smart drapes -

  The Coshattes move about - the reason I presume is that the White man wishes to have their lands - but their principal villages are "Colete" that is the Lower [?] Village - near Swartwood there is another [?] Village & above this another called "Battist"