Athanase de Mezieres and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier - 1768-1789 (Notes)

              ATHANASE DE MEZIERES and the LOUISIANA-TEXAS FRONTIER, I768-I789 Vol 1 
Hubert Eugene Bolton, Kraus Reprint Co., N.Y., 1970

Pap., Proc. de cuba, leg. 188-1., No. 56
DeMexieres to Unzaga Y Amezaga - 21 Aug 1770

Three Indians from El Arkansas having appeared in the neighborhood of this 
post without coming to it, they wounded a horse with a musket shot and stole 
others belonging to various persons of this post, who are distrubed by it, as 
is fitting so strange and extraordinary a deed.
	As soon as I was notified, 0 ordered that men should mount on horseback, 
and to the number of ifteen they very willingly set out to pursue these Indians. 
But as the latter had six days the start, they were unable to overtake them, 
and all that has been accomplished is to make certain, from the direction which 
they took, that they are of the said Akansa tribe.
	Nothing being so important as to respress such boldness at the outset, I 
sent a messenger to the Akansa fort, which is distant from this one a hundred 
and some leagues, with letters for its commander, begging him to call a 
gathering of the Indians of his jurisdiction, ascertain the evildoers, 
give them, in the presence of all, the reprimand which their boldness merits, 
require them to pay for the animal which they wounded, and return wkiK those 
which they have taken off.
	This meesenger is accompanied by twelve Natchitoches Indians, bearing 
his Majesty's banner and the calumet which they use on such occasions, it seeming 
to me plain that, by making this embassy with all the solemnity possible, 
these Indians of Akensa must restrain themselves in the future, and respect 
as they ought the dominions of our new soverign.
	The courier mentioned, who left 24 days ago, I am expecting soon, and I 
shall have the honor to report to your Lordship what success may have resulted 
from his journey.
	Those 12 Natchitoches Indians have gone solely in the interest of the 
public welfare,  I merely agreed to five the courses, named Juan Brebel, twenty 
pesos for his services, and I beg your Lordship to inform me if I may pay it 
from the sale of confiscated goods, in virtue of the ordinance of this
superior government.....
Postscript 4 Sept 1770
M. de Blan having deferred his journey until today, I am enabled to report 
to your Lordship that Juan Bautista Brevel, mentioned above, has just arrived 
from Los Akancas, whence he brought the stolen animals, to the great satisfaction 
of these citizens.  This outcome we owe principally to the great pains and good 
government of M. de Maseilliere, of the said place and fort of El Akansas.... 
p 180-182

IBID, p 160-162
15 May 1770 - same to same - It must be about 16 years ago, a little more or less, 
that a person named Brindamur, whose sole employment was to roam the forests and 
entertain himself in hunting—an occupation very conducive to laziness and to 
all the other vices as well—carried off a woman, although with her consent, and 
married though she was to an honorable person of Puntte Cupe named Albertto. 
The latter soon died of grief caused him by the unexpected rashness of his wife, 
thus leaving both of them free.   Happy at the news, they came down from the river 
of the Akensas, famous asylum of evil-doers whither they had fled, to the 
fort of the same name, and there, as a reward, for their unchaste amours, they were 
united in the most unhappy bonds of matrimony.  They then returned at once to their 
haunts, because the groom, who was of gigantic frame and extraordinary strength, 
had made himself a petty king over those vagabonds and highwaymen, who, weith 
contempt for law and subordination, with equal insult to Christians, and to the 
shame of the very heathan, up to now have maintaine themselves on that river. 
But, a short time after this new journey inland, it happened that one of his 
subjects, not only Angered at the ill treatment which Brindamur gave him (which