They are now an extinct race." "How came that about ?" "No one can tell.

Some of the old Spanish authors say that they were destroyed by Indians from South America.

This story, however, is very absurd--as is, indeed, most of what has been written by these same old Spanish authors, whose books read more like the productions of children than of reasoning men.

It is far more likely that the Natchez were conquered by the Creeks and Chicasaws, who came from the south-west of their country; and that the remnant of their tribe became blended with and lost among the conquerors.

In my opinion, this is how they have come to be extinct.