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Talisi. It is the stream called now Naufawpi, running from the east into 

 Eufaubee (Yufdbi) creek, which empties into Tallapoosa opposite Tuka- 

 batchi; in Hawkins' Sketch (pp. 27, 29) Eufaubee is made distinct from 

 the neighboring Kalibi Ilatchi, both of them running into Tallapoosa river 

 from the east (Macon Co., Alabama) ; the country intervening was one of 

 the most densely settled at the time of the aboriginal occupation of Talla- 

 poosa river. The legend adds that the Kasi'hta had no maize at that time, 

 and were therefore compelled to make use of their bows and arrows 

 (pointed with beaver-teeth and sharp stones) to supply themselves with 

 venison. The cane-knives were what the Cha'hta call kdnshak; the 

 tribal name Conchaques, mainly in use among the French colonists, is 

 derived from this term (vol. i, p. 116). 



No mention is made of the crossing of the Tallapoosa river ; if 

 the tribe followed the southern trail as known to us from the 

 eighteenth century, they crossed that river at Tukabatchi. 



The Crane-whooping creek, WatulasHoka Hatchi, is a small 

 northern affluent of Yuchi creek, also called Hosapoligee, which 

 runs between Nofapi and Owatunka river, a stream in which we 

 recognize Wetumka creek (i. 150). This stream follows a south- 

 eastern course through Russell Co., Alabama, and falls into Cha- 

 tahuchi river about 32° 15' Lat., a few miles below Columbus, Ga. 

 Wetumpka, an old town on Coosa river, cannot be meant here, 

 for to reach it the migrating tribe would have had to retrace its 

 steps westward ; moreover, the inhabitants of Wetumpka were 

 of the Alibamu race and language, a circumstance which makes 

 the visiting- of this place by Creeks improbable, even if it could 

 be proved that Wetumpka existed at that early day. 



The next stream visited and crossed by the immigrants was 

 Afusafiska,* after which a hilly country was reached. The im- 

 migrants must have been then in the neighborhood of Kawita or 

 Kawita Talahassi. 



The Kasi'hta had now reached the mountainous tracts on Cha- 

 tahuchi river, inhabited by red towns, or unfriendly, distrustful 

 populations. The name of the first people they saw is not stated, 

 nor is that of the second, whose town they assaulted and took by 

 force. The difficulty encountered by them in pursuing a trail 



» Afusafiska or " Bark.peeling." This name refers to the peeling of trees, especially 

 conifers;, to obtain the inner or fibre bark for food. This custom is wide-spread among In- 

 dians; the Ratirontake or Adirontaks (a Mohawk terra) obtained their tribal name on ac- 

 count of peeling the trees in their country. 



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