rench government placed on the
services of these allies may be inferred from a remark which has come
down from a council of state, in reference to their conduct in this
battle: "_Quoique je n'approuve pas qu'on mange les morts, cependant il
ne faut pas quereller avec ces bonnetes gens pour des bagatelles._"

4 Page 38. Among others bearing witness to these strange relics, Timothy
Flint says, in his _History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley_:
"In this state [Tennessee] burying grounds have been found where the
skeletons seem all to have been pigmies. The graves in which the bodies
were deposited are seldom more than two feet or two feet and a half in
length. To obviate the objection that these are all the bodies of
children, it is affirmed that the skulls are found to have possessed the
_dentes sapientiae_ and must have belonged to persons of mature age. The
two bodies that were found in the vast limestone cavern in Tennessee,
one of which I saw at Lexington, were neither of them more than four
feet high; the hair seemed to have been sandy, or inclining to yellow.
It is well known that nothing is so uniform in the present Indian as his
lank, black hair. From the pains taken to preserve the bodies, and the
great labor of making the funeral robes in which they were folded, they
must have been of the 'blood royal' or personages of consideration in
their day." (Hayward, in his quaint and rare _Natural and Aboriginal
History of Tennessee_, referring to the curious method of interment, in
a copperas cave, of two mummies, both of full size, however, arrayed in
fabrics of great beauty, evincing much mechanical skill in manufacture,
also mentions the hair on the heads of both as long, and of a yellow
cast and a fine texture.) Webber, in his _Romance of Natural History_,
gives the size of the diminutive sarcophagi of the supposed pygmies
found in Tennessee as three feet in length by eighteen inches in depth.
Hayward also mentions the pygmy dwellers of Tennessee, and another
writer still, describing one of these singular graveyards of the "little
people," states that the bones were strong and well formed, and that one
of the skeletons had about its neck ninety-four pearls. The painfully
prosaic hypothesis of certain craniologists that such relics were only
those of children is, of course, rejected by any person possessed of the
resources of imagination.

5 Page 40. This name is also given in one or two instances as Dejean,