some eight)' years after this no one seems to have fallen in with the 'VVelsh Indians. About 1730, however, a Velsh trader named

]3inon, having penetrated to the eounto' west of the Mississippi, then remote and unknown, found Indians speaking Velsh of great purity. The5' received him kindly) A man, Griffiths, in 17;4 professes to have nmde his way with the Shawnees to Velsh- speaking Iidians.'-' Beatty, in 176$, repeats a tale of Velsh Indians with a Welsh Bible in I'emmylvania ;" though this is perhaps truly another reminiscence of Morgan J(mes. "General Bowles," Cherokee chief, who visited London in 1792, asserted that there were Velsh Indians, who were the same as tl,e Paducahs. The name meant "white face," and was given them because of their light complexions. =They had sandy, red, or hlack hair, and were very warlike. Finally, a Lieutenaut loherts tells us that whilst in a Vashington hotel iu 1,s01, he made some remarks in Velsh, when there were some Indian chiefs within hearing. One of these came up to him and continued the conversatim. The chief had heard of Lloegr [England] but not df Wales: he talked much of the "Saxons." His Velsh was very free and fluent. and he expldned that by a tribal law, no other dialect could be taught the children till they were twelve years old. This kept the language pure.

The existence of Welsh Iudians nm'th 6f Mexico was so strongly believed that sererid Welshmen went out to visit them or preach to them. A John Evans iu 17:} '). started from Wales, and after five yem's of wandering and exploration, reported that there were no Welsh Indians in existence. The Velsh-speaking I'aducahs had proved a fraud. It was, however, alleged now that these Velsh Indians were riffling hack steadily towards the west, and that this was the reason why they had not been discovered. Between and 1805 the Mississippi basin and Pacific slope were searched with unsuccess; amther expedition in ls')l was not more profitable. Vith the advance of settlement and explonttion it has Imcome

5Ia,loc, Winsre', ' llisto D- of America,' i. 11o. Grifiiths, as usual, was taken prisoner, and condemned to death. Ol,. c#.

B,wen, 88. The chief added that a Welshman who had heen with him found that he cmthl talk well with the lht,lueahs. B.wles is said t, have heen an h'Mminn. ]'adm.ahs, explains Sir. Bowen, woul, l be ve T like .Ma,loe if only the "P" were change, I to ' M." Olhers. huhlet. have asserted that in I':,lncah, .Mndogwy.lest'eml:m f 5ln,l,,., can hr. trnt'e, 1. I he:'.-. n=ain, l;mn,l the e,luied nan.e in