[54] Relation of Pénicaut, in Margry V, 424-432.
[55] Margry IV, 180.
[56] Margry V, 433 sqq.
[57] The site once occupied by Fort Tombigbee is now called Jones' Bluff, on Little Tombigbee river. Cf. Dumont in B. F. French, Histor. Coll. of La., V, 106 and Note.
[58] Adair, History, p. 353, asserts that the real cause of the third Naktche-French war lay in the instigations of the Chicasa. On the causes and progress of the hostilities between the French and the Chicasa, cf. pp. 353-358. They attacked there his own trading house, cf. p. 357. Cf. also Naktche, in this vol., pp. [34]- [39].
[59] Margry IV, 412 and 184.
[60] I have treated of some of these tribes (Tonica, Koroa) in separate articles. Moncachtape said to du Pratz, that the Yazoo Indians regarded the Chicasa as their elders, "since from them came the language of the country."
[61] A large northern affluent of Yazoo river, in northern parts of Mississippi State.
[62] Cf. Margry V, 401 and Note.