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press It, which "made themselves red" (itchatidshalgi), are 

 enumerated in the Hst inserted in Alb. James Pickett, History 

 of Alabama, Charleston, 1S51, i. 267, the names being given 

 in my phonetic alphabet : 



Hu"li;Wa.'hli, Fus';hatchi, Kuliimi. Ikanhatki. Sawanogi, Mu- 

 klasa, Odshi-apofa, Oktchoyiidshi, P6tchus';hatchi, Pakan;tala- 

 hassi, Wakokayi, VViwii/ka. Hawkins adds to these the Aliba- 

 mu towns (Appendix to Sketch, pp. 83, 84). 



According to my Creek informants, the above Upper Creek 

 towns were reinforced by a few Yuchi living among the Upper 

 Creek towns, also by a few men from Oki;tiyakni and Sawok- 

 li, who are Lower Creeks. The Lower Creeks, Cheroki and 

 Cha'hta sent auxiliary troops to combat the insurrection, the 

 latter havino- as a leader the celebrated chief Pushmataha. 



yill. — LOAN-WORDS IN SOUTHERN LAN&UA&ES, 



The present selection contains a list of words found to be held 

 in common by two neighboring families of southern Indians, and 

 by their incorporation in these languages proving an ancient 

 contact of the two national bodies. For tracing contacts of this 

 nature and thereby giving a clue to the ancient abodes and mi- 

 grations of nations, loan-ivords are among the most useful his- 

 toric documents, especially where they distinctly prove which 

 nation or tribe has been the loaner and which one the bor- 

 rower. Loan-words are chiet^y terms for objects of interna- 

 tional exchange, for plants and trees, and for animals hunted 

 by man ; and most of them must have been borrowed many 

 centuries ago. 



If by the present list it can be made probable that Maskoki 

 tribes have many loan-words common with other southern na- 

 tions east of the Mississippi river, this will help to prove, as 

 well as the similarities in phonetics, that these tribes have been 

 neighbors to each other for many centuries, and in the same tracts 

 which they held when they were first visited by white men. 



YUCHI -MASKOKI LOAN-WORDS 

 are not unfrequent, and with many of them the priority of pos- 

 session seems to be decidedly on the Yuchi side. Their con- 



