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Apalache refugees seemed to love French Mobile
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The first mention of Apalachee in the register of the old Catholic church in Mobile records the baptism of a little Apalachee boy on September 6, 1706.3 Penicaut has the following to say regarding these Apalachee: "The Apalachee perform divine service like the Catholics in France. Their grand feast is on the day of St. Louis [Note: It will be remembered that St. Louis was one of the leading Apalachee towns and one of those which escaped destruction]; they come the evening before to ask the officers of the fort to come to the fete in their village, and they extend great good cheer on that day to all who come there, especially to the French. The priests of our fort go there to perform high mass, which they listen to with much devotion, singing the psalms in Latin, as is done in France, and, after dinner, vespers and the benediction of the Holy Sacrament. Men and women are there that day very well dressed. The men have a kind of cloth overcoat and the women cloaks, skirts of silk stuff after the French manner, except that they do not have head coverings, their heads being uncovered; their hair, long and very black, is braided and hangs in one or two plaits behind after the manner of the Spanish women. Those who have too long hair bend it back as far as the middle of the back and tie it with a ribbon. They have a church, where one of our French priests goes to say mass Sundays and feast days; they have a baptismal font, in which to baptize their infants, and a cemetery side of the church, in which there is a cross, where they are buried. Toward evening, on St. Louis's day, after the service is finished, men, women, and children dress in masks; they dance the rest of the day with the French who are there, and the other savages who come that day to their village; they have quantities of food cooked with which to regale them. They love the French very much, and it must be confessed that they have nothing of the savage except their language, which is a mixture of the language of the Spaniards and of the Alibamons.5 (Swanton)
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