The annalist Pénicaut, who visited these parts in 1704, states that the nine villages were situated in a delightful country, swarming with buffaloes, drained by rivulets and partly wooded. The village or residence of the head chief, _the Sun_, lay one league from the Mississippi river, and three other villages were on a brook, at a distance of half a league from each other. He alludes to their human sacrifices, the frequency of infanticide, and gives descriptions of their temple, perpetual fire, their "_marche des cadavres_" and articles of dress. The house of the Sun was large enough to contain four thousand persons; he had female servants called _oulchil tichon_, and thirty male attendants ("laquais") or _loüés_, the Allouez of other chroniclers. Mother-right prevailed among them (Margry V, 444-456).