24 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 73 
One among the above names, Ufalague, has an / and an I; six 
others an I, Aluete, Alush, Callawassie, Palawana, Stalame, Talapo; 
and seven an m, Combahee, Shemee, Stalame, Wambaw, Wampi, 
Wimbee, Wommony. As in the case of the Guale and Yamasee 
languages (see p. 15), these argue a Muskhogean connection. 
The only other fact that seems to promise assistance is the trans- 
lation of the word Westoboo as "river of the Westo," from which it 
would seem that boo signifies "river. " 1 So far as I have been able to 
find, nothing like this occurs in either Yuchi or Catawba, the closest 
resemblance being with the Choctaw bole, 2 with which perhaps the 
Alabama pa'ni, the Timucua ibi(ne), and the Apalachee ubab are con- 
nected. The little evidence this one word gives us, therefore, points 
toward Muskhogean relationship. It is possible that the same word 
occurs in certain of the names given above, such as Ashepoo, Bohicket, 
Boo-shoo-ee, Backbooks, Cusabo, Wadboo, Wappoo, Wiskinboo, and 
perhaps also in Combahee (also spelled Combohe). If this expla- 
nation holds good for Cusabo the term would probably mean "Coosa 
River people, " though it is difficult to see how such a name came to 
be applied generally, in some cases to the exclusion of the Coosa 
Indians themselves. We must suppose it to have been adopted 
as the name of a town near the mouth of the Coosawhatchie, or some 
other river on which Coosa lived, and the usage to have extended 
from that place along the coast. It should be noted as a rather 
remarkable fact, and one probably based on some feature of the 
Cusabo tongue, that of the place and personal names given above, 
16, or more than one-fourth, begin with w. This is a common initial 
in stream names from the Creek language, owing to the fact that 
many of them begin with wi, which is almost the same as oi, an abbre- 
viation of oiwa, water; but in the names under consideration wa 
initial is more common than wi and we together. 
The evidence so far adduced applies particularly to that group 
of Cusabo tribes living near Beaufort, to which the term is sometimes 
confined. There was a second group, farther to the north, about 
Charleston Harbor, consisting of the Kiawa, Etiwaw, Wando, and 
perhaps the Stono. In both the English and Spanish narratives 
the chief of Kiawa appears on intimate terms with those of Edisto and 
St. Helena, and their solidarity is emphasized on more than one 
occasion by the early writers, they being classed as coast Indians, and 
contrasted with the Westo inland upon the Savannah River and 
the tribes living in the "sickly" country northward of them. 3 In 
later times the Etiwaw assisted the English in destroying the Siouan 
Santee and Congaree. 4 Henry Woodward, upon whom the English 
i S. Car. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, p. 167. 
2 It should be noted that final -k in many Choctaw words is barely distinguishable as pronounced. 
3 See p. 67; also Lowery, MSS. 
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