Dropping down the vast current he most patiently made a thorough examination of the banks from natchez to the gulf, and finally determined to make the Crescent Bend the future capitol.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
He was reinforced by a detachment from the United States ships Warren and natchez, amounting in all to about three hundred men.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
Then they had thirty half barrels of flour, and a dozen barrels of biscuit, a barrel of meal, fifty bushels of meal, twenty-four bushels of natchez hulled corn, four barrels of other hulled corn, and one of meal.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough