16 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
them out of each of the Creek towns that they may come together and make one town. 
We must pray you to recall the Yamasees that they may be buried in peace amongst 
their ancestors, and that they may see their graves before they die; and their own 
nation shall be restored again to its ten towns. 
Here the Yamacraw and the Yamasee seem to be treated as former 
members of the Creek Confederacy. Unless the Yamasee and the 
Guale Indians had been so considered the Creeks at this council 
would not have claimed all of the land on the Georgia coast south of 
the Savannah River and at the same time have asked that the 
Yamasee be recalled to inhabit it. It is as guardians of these tribes 
that they ceded to Oglethorpe the coast between Savannah River 
and St. Simons Island, with the exception of the islands of Ossabaw, 
Sapello, and St. Catherines, and a small strip of land near Savannah 
city. 
The particular Muskhogean dialect which these Indians spoke is, 
however, more difficult to ascertain. Ranjel indicates a connection 
between the Yamasee and Hitchiti, 1 and this impression appears to 
have been shared generally by the Muskogee Indians of later times. 
On the other hand, the word for chief among the Guale Indians was, 
as we have seen, miko, 2 the form which it has in Muskogee, whereas 
the proper Hitchiti term is miM. This means either that Muskogee 
was already the lingua franca upon the coast of Georgia or else that 
the languages of the Guale Indians and the Yamasee belonged to 
distinct groups. According to several traditions the Muskogee at one 
time lived upon this very coast, and I am inclined to accept the second 
explanation, but it is not put forward with overmuch confidence. 
The name of the Cusabo first appears in the form "Cocapoy" in a 
letter of Governor Pedro Menendez Marques dated January 3, 1580. 
It is there given as the name of a big town occupied by hostile Indians 
and strongly placed in a swamp, about 15 leagues from the Spanish 
fort at Santa Elena. 3 The tribe appears later as one of those accused 
of fomenting an uprising against the Guale missionaries in' 1597, and 
afterwards among those appealed to for help in putting it down. 4 
There is every reason to believe that its appellation was connected 
in some way with that of the Coosa Indians of South Carolina, but 
how is not certain. 
By the English the name is sometimes used to designate all of the 
coast tribes of South Carolina from Savannah River to Charleston 
and two on the lower course of the Santee. On the other hand, not 
only are the latter sometimes excluded, but at least one of the tribes 
of the neighborhood of Charleston Inlet. Mooney suggests a still 
more restricted use of the word. 5 In its most extended application 
J See p. 95. 
2 Or mico; c indicates precisely the same as k. 
a Lowery, MSS. 
* See p. 60. 
6 Siouan Tribes of the Kast, Bull. 22, Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 86. 
