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1675 there was already an Oconee town on the Chattahoochee. This 

 may have been an earlier position of the town later found on Oconee 

 River or a separate settlement of the same tribe. We learn that Kolomi, 

 which appears later as an Upper Creek town, was then among the 

 Lower Creeks, and that the Hilibi were divided between the two sec- 

 tions of the nation. The Hitchiti and Okmulgee had seemingly moved 

 over from Ocmulgee River to be near the Spaniards. Three new towns 

 appear among the Lower Creeks, — ChicahiJti, Taciisa, and Cuchiguali 

 — the first of which seems to contain the word huti, " home ", while the 

 second resembles closely the name of the mole, " takusa ". A small 

 Creek clan was so called. 



Next we have information regarding the Chatot missions and a note 

 on the Chiska or Yuchi. The list of Upper Creek towns, those given 

 as constituents of the " Province of Toassa ", is very incomplete. We 

 recognize the Tawasa, Muklasa, Pacana, Hothliwahali (Oslibati), 

 Okfuskee, Atasi, Tukabahchee, Hatcichaba, and Hilibi. Atayache so 

 closely resembles Atahachi, the name of the Mobile town visited by 

 De Soto in 1540, that I am inclined to identify the two, all the more as 

 Atayache is enumerated along with the Alabama towns whose speech 

 resembled that of the Mobile, though the locations of the two do not 

 agree. I do not recognize Escatana, Ilantalui, and Ichoposi. 



The notice of the Choctaw nation that appears here is the oldest 

 under the name by which they are commonly known, and we learn that 

 they were already very numerous. 



In Cofatache we seem to have a very late reference to Cofitachequi 

 but unfortunately no clue to the affinities of the people so called ex- 

 cept the fact that they controlled the Indians of Escamacu, who were 

 apparently Muskhogeans. 



Important is the localization near Pine Island of the place where 

 De Soto had a small vessel built, since this was where Narvaez had 

 previously constructed his own ill-fated crafts. 



Students of early Indian population will be interested in the state- 

 ment that in 1675 there were 13,152 Christianized Indians, for this 

 must represent an actual enumeration. 



To the controversy over Spanish mission buildings in the Southeast 

 and the material of which they were made, our Bishop contributes the 

 information that his Indians were " great carpenters as is evidenced 

 in the construction of their wooden churches which are large and 

 painstakingly wrought." 



Most of the words attributed to the Indians are either Spanish or — 

 as instanced by bujio and barhacoa — from the Arawak language of 



