. Bulletin. Ethnology. 88 ARKSUTITE—ARMOR [b. a. e. they numbered about 80 men in 1760-70 and subsisted princijjally on shellfish and fruits, and in 1805 their principal town was on the w. side of Colorado r. of Texas, about 200 m. s. w. of Nacogdoches. They had another village n. of this, between the Neches and the Sabine, nearer the coast than the villages of the Adai. Sibley speaks of the Arkokisa as migra- tory, but they could not always have been entitled to that characterization. It is probable that, owing to the conditions incident to the intrusion of the white race, the people became d
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 88 ARKSUTITE—ARMOR [b. a. e. they numbered about 80 men in 1760-70 and subsisted princijjally on shellfish and fruits, and in 1805 their principal town was on the w. side of Colorado r. of Texas, about 200 m. s. w. of Nacogdoches. They had another village n. of this, between the Neches and the Sabine, nearer the coast than the villages of the Adai. Sibley speaks of the Arkokisa as migra- tory, but they could not always have been entitled to that characterization. It is probable that, owing to the conditions incident to the intrusion of the white race, the people became demoralized; their tribal relations were broken up, their numbers decimated by disease, and the remnant of them was finally scat- tered and disorganized. Of their habits very little is known; their language seems to have been distinct from that of their neighbors, with whom they conversed by signs, (a. c. f.) Accocesaws.—Lewis, Travels, 191, 1809. Accocke- sa-ws.—Fisher, Int. Ace., 201,1812. Accokesaus.^ Braclienridge, Views of La., 81, 1814. Accoke- saws.—Sibley, Hist. Sketches, 71, 1806. Aco-ke- sas.—Brackeiiridge, op. eit., 87. Acossesaws.— Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., 103, 18ri6. Arkokisa,—Yoakum, Hist. Tex., map, En- quisacoes,—Clarke in Tex. Hist. Assn. Qiiar., ix, 53, 1905. Horcaquisacs.—MS. of, 1770 quoted by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, , 1886. Horcon- citos.—Bancroft, ibid., 643. Horcoquisa.—Tex. State archives, Aug. 26, Horcoquisaes.—Doc. of 1793 in Tex. State archives. Naquizcoza.— Gentl. of Elvas quf)ted by Shea, Early Voy., 149, 1861 (same?). Ocosaus,—Soc. Geog. Mex., Bui., 266, 1870. Orcoquisa,—Doe. of 1805 in Tex. State archives. Orcoquisacs.—Mezieres (1778) quoted by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 661, 1886. Orco- quizas.—Doc. of 1791 in State archives. Orquisaco.—Yoakum, Hist. Tex., i, 49, 1855. Ox- quoquiras.—Robin, Vov. a la Louisiane, ill, 14, 1807. Arksutite. According to Dana (Text- book
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