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Updated: May 4, 2025
These were the funniest little green kappas, or creatures half way between a monkey and a tortoise, with yellow eyes, hands like an ape, hair clipped short on their heads, eyes like frogs, and a mouth that stretched from ear to ear Poor creatures! they were only too happy to know that though they looked like monkeys their livers would not do for medicine.
Those first visited by La Salle were the Kappas or Quapaws, a remnant of whom still subsists. The others were the Topingas, or Tongengas; the Torimans; and the Osotouoy, or Sauthouis. According to Charlevoix, who saw them in 1721, they were regarded as the tallest and best formed Indians in America, and were known as les Beaux Hommes. Tonty's estimates of distance are here much too low.
At the Sig Kappas I met Black Jim, the first one, at the door. He shook hands shyly, laughingly. "You sure fetched that rube a wallop ... he let one croak out of him and flopped flat ... it would have made a good comic picture." "Lunch is ready, boys!" I was made into a sort of hero "a real, honest-to-God guy." "You'll have to come to some of our frat jamborees ... Jack'll bring you up."
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