612 swanton: siouan tribes of the east 



native speech the n was probably nasalized, and the English 

 chose to make a full n out of it while the Spaniards preferred to 

 ignore it. It m equally evident that Guatari is the later Wateree, 

 gua being a common Spanish equivalent of English wa. Joye 

 is spelled in another place Suye and in still another Xoye or 

 Xoya. As x was often employed by Spanish writers of this 

 period to designate the sh sound, it is evident that the initial 

 sound was either sh or s; and when we add to this the fact that 

 the chief of Joye is represented as ruling over all of the land at 

 the mouth of the Santee, the identity of Joye, Xuye, or Suye 

 with the later Sewee becomes almost certain. If the name of one 

 of the tribes mentioned by Ayllon and his chroniclers should be 

 spelled Duache, as it appears in some places, instead of Duhare, 

 it may be identical with Daxe, but no such tribe appears in later 

 times. Xoada, the town near the mountains, is, as Mooney 

 has shown, the tribe known to the English as Saraw, then living 

 at the head of Broad river. If there has been a mistake in copy- 

 ing, Lasi may be intended for Issi, the old name of the Catawba. 

 At any rate Guasar is undoubtedly Waxaw, while Pasque, al- 

 though not found as a tribal name in the English period, is the 

 Pasqui of Francisco of Chicora. On the authority of Lederer and 

 some others Gregg and Mooney have expressed an opinion that 

 in the latter part of the seventeenth century the Wateree were 

 not on the river which now bears their name, but upon the Pedee 

 or Yadkin. 1 . Unless we suppose there were two divisions to the 

 tribe, however, the statements just quoted indicate that this is 

 a mistake, and that at least part of the Wateree were in their later 

 well known historic seats almost at the beginning of the seven- 

 teenth century. In fact Ecija's testimony throughout is to the 

 comparative permanence in location of the tribes in the area in 

 question. The Sewee, Santee, Waxaw, and possibly Catawba 

 are where the South Carolina settlers found them more than 

 sixty years later. If there be an exception it is in the case of 

 the Chicora, who may have been the Sugeree or the Shoccoree, 

 found later by the Carolina colonists a considerable distance 

 inland. 



'Gregg, A., Hist, of the Old Cheraws, p. 7; Mooney, James, Bull. 22, Bur. 

 Amer. Ethn., p. 81. 



