366 



POPULATION. 



III. 



tJchees. 



29 



IV. 



Creek or -^o 3i 32 



Mus Koo-ee Savanna, Sernna, Cusoboe. 



3.3 34 m 



Yamassee, Huspa, Cosah. 



About 1-8 of tlie territory of 

 the Uchees extended across the 

 Savannah river into Aiken, 

 Edgefield and Barnwell coun- 

 ties. There is no estimate of 

 their numbers. Their Princess 

 of Cutifachiqui (Silver Bluff) 

 entertiiined DeSoto Avith great 

 splendor, according to the narra- 

 tive of the gentleman of Elvas 

 (1540). They were absorbed by 

 the Creeks, and have left no 

 trace excei:)t in the name of a 

 small stream in Silverton town- 

 ship, Aiken county, and of a 

 neighboring steamboat landing 

 on the Savannah, Talemeco, af- 

 ter their great temple, which it 

 is said stood there in DeSoto's 

 time. 



Fragmentary tribes on the 

 Savannah river, south of the 

 Uchees, in Barnwell county. 



The Yamassees numbered 

 about 100 men, women and 

 children, near Pocotaligo, in 

 1715, and were driven across 

 the Savannah, by Governor 

 Craven. Twenty men of the 

 tribe were left at Saint Augus- 

 tine, Florida, in 1743, and they 

 were absorbed by the Seminoles. 



The Yamassee, or Jamassi, 

 were one of a small number of 

 isolated tribes, of dark com- 

 plexion, found widel}' scattered 

 among the inhabitants of North 

 and South America. Supposed 

 to have been immigrants from 

 Africa prior to the European 

 discovery of America (see Hu- 



