The Nation of the _Accancea’s_ consists of four Villages. The first is call’d _Otsotchove_, near which we were; the second _Toriman_, both of them seated on the River; the third _Tonginga_; and the fourth _Cappa_, on the Bank of the _Missisipi_. These Villages are built after a different Manner from the others we had seen before, in this Point, that the Cottages, which are alike as to their Materials and Rounding at the Top, are long, and cover’d with the Bark of Trees, and so very large, that several of them can hold two hundred Persons, belonging to several Families. [Sidenote: _Household Stuff._] The people are not so neat as the _Cenis_, or the _Assonis_ in their Houses, for some of them lie on the Ground, without any Thing under them but some Mats, or a dress’d Hide. However, some of them have more Conveniencies, but the Generality has not.[115] All their Moveables consist in some Earthen Vessels and oval wooden Platters, which are neatly made, and with which they drive a Trade. [Sidenote: _Shape._] They are generally very well shap’d and active; the Women are handsome, or at least have a much better Presence than those of the other Villages we pass’d thro’ before. They make Canoes all of one Piece, which are well wrought. As for themselves they are very faithful, good natur’d, and Warriors like the rest. [Sidenote: _The Ceremony of the Pipe perform’d to M._ Cavelier.] The 25th, the Elders being assembled, came to see us, and told the Sieur _Couture_, that they design’d to sing and dance the _Calumet_, or Pipe; because the others had sung it, some of them to the late Monsieur _de la Sale_, and the rest to Monsieur _Tonty_, and therefore it was but reasonable they should do the same to get a Firelock, as well as the others. Monsieur _Cavelier_ was inform’d of it, and it was requisite to consent to it, to please those _Indians_, because we stood in need of them. [Sidenote: _Ceremony of the Pipe._] The Ceremony began with Monsieur _Cavelier_, who was led under the Arms and seated on a Hide, without the Cottage. The Forks, the Skins laid on it in Honour of the Pipe, the Singing as loud as they cou’d roar, both by Men and Women, and all the other Ceremonies were observ’d, as I have mention’d them before; so that Monsieur _Cavelier_ being weary of them, he caus’d the Chief to be told, that he was out of Order, and desir’d his Nephew might be put in his Place, which was done accordingly, and they spent the whole Night in Singing. In the Morning they perform’d some other Ceremonies, not worth relating.