Alpoiecazingo, ib. has 140 families.
Alponeca, ib. has 30 families. Another, same name, 77 families.
Altamaha, a river of Georgia.
Altotonga, the name of a settlement of Xalapa, in New Spain. The word signifies in the Mexican language, hot and saltish water, and this comes from the intermingled qualities of two streams which originate in a mountain near to each other, and form by their junction a river which runs into the lake of Alchichica.
Alzoui, a settlement of 190 Indian families, of Tlapa, in New Spain, or Mexico. They are industrious, cultivating maize, cotton, French beans and rice.
Almouchico, the Indian name for New England, on the map of “Novi Belgii,” published at Amsterdam in 1659.
Amacaches, a nation of Indians of Brazil, of the province of Rio Janiero. They inhabit the mountains south of the city. They are numerous, and much dreaded, on account of the desperate incursions they have made into the Portuguese settlements. Their weapons are darts, and macanaw, a kind of club made of a very heavy wood. They poison their arrows and lances.
Amalistes, a band of Algonquins, living on the St. Lawrence, and numbering 500 in 1760.
Amanalco, an Indian settlement of the district of Metepeque, Mexico, of 1224 families.
Amapaes, a barbarous nation of Indians in New Andalusia, to the west of the river Orinoco, near the mountains of Paria. They are valiant and hardy; sincere and faithful in their engagements. They live by the chace and by fishing. They make arms, which are tipped by vegetable poisons. They are at war with the Isaperices. Their territory is called, after them, Amapaya.