Rev. Morse, in his Report to the Government (1822), states that their
home is on the western or right side of Trinity river, Texas,
sixty-five miles above its mouth, and that they count one hundred and
twenty people. In 1850 a small settlement of five or six Bidai
families existed on Lower Sabine River.
The Opelousas of Louisiana and the Cances of Texas spoke languages
differing from all others around them.[37]
[Footnote 37: American State Papers, I, pp. 722-24.]