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sideration to those xvho have resided in it. This formula is 

 rather conspicuous by the verbal dual we two reside^ tak'kayad, 

 which under the symbolic ima<^e of man and wife represents the 

 whole tribe, gens, or nation. It also occurs in another formula : 

 wulliokviiita italuan ihayiyatis — I seceded (man and wife) and 

 J~or/ned a town for myself; or, as the Creeks express it, / two 

 seceded^ meaning a part of the tribe including myself. 



ToMOCHicHi, chief of the Yamacraw tribe upon Savannah river, 

 was the brother of the Hitchiti miko, and cousin of Wikatchampa, 

 chief of the Okoni Indians. Ke was a native of Apalatchukla 

 town, a Hitchiti-speaking community, and a steadfast friend of 

 the white colonists who had settled in his vicinity. His name 

 was spelt in many different ways ; it is Creek, and signifies "the 

 one who causes to fty up." When Gov. J. Oglethorpe took him 

 over to England, he left Charleston harbor with a considerable 

 retinue of Indians on April 7th, 1734, and on his return disem- 

 barked at Savannah on December 27th of the same year. All the 

 portraits extant of him are taken from a German print, engraved 

 by J. J. Kleinschmidt at Augsburg, and purporting to reproduce 

 an original likeness issued in London, which full print also gives 

 the portrait of his nephew Toonahowi — a boy holding an eagle. 

 Toonahowi was the son of the above miko of the Hitchiti, and 

 afterwards distinguished himself as a warrior in assisting the 

 English against the Yamassi and the Spaniards. The portrait is 

 reproduced in Chas. C. Jones, Jr., History of Georgia, vol. i. p. 

 134 ; in Gay, Popular History of U. S., iii. 147 ; in J. Winsor, 

 Narrative and Critical History of America (18S7), vol. v. 371. 



THE TRACK OF THE KASE'HTA MIGRATION. 



Does the Kasi'hta migration legend contain historic, real facts 

 and occurrences, or not.'' and, if it does, which are they.? The 

 investigation of these points requires, before all, a close examina- 

 tion of the topical names preserved in the interesting narrative. 



Although at the beginning of the migration the Kasi'hta made 

 a move to the westward, the general direction of the march is 

 from west to east, or, more accurately, as will appear from the 

 following, from northwest to southeast. 



