bwantos] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 49 
finally they entered the mouth of a broad river which "by reason of 
its beauty and grandeur" they called Port Royal. This was the 
inlet in South Carolina which still bears the name of Port Royal 
Sound, and here, before he returned to France, Ribault left a colony 
of 28 men, constructing for them a small fort near the modern Port 
Royal, South Carolina. Ribault himself then continued northeast 
along the coast for a short distance, but becoming alarmed at the 
numerous bars and shallows which he encountered and believing 
he had accomplished sufficient for one voyage, he returned to France. 
Meanwhile the settlers whom he had left finished their fort and then 
set out to explore, the country. Very fortunately they placed them- 
selves on the best of terms with their Indian neighbors, from whom 
they obtained provisions sufficient for their sustenance, giving the 
Indians in exchange articles of iron and other sorts of merchandise. 
The building in which most of their provisions were kept was, how- 
ever, destroyed by fire, troubles broke out among them, and finally 
the survivors built a small vessel and left the country. On the 
voyage they ran short of provisions and some of them starved to 
death, but the survivors were at length rescued by an English vessel, 
and part of them ultimately reached France. 
From the story of these survivors recorded by Laudonniere x and 
the data on Le Moyne's map 2 we are enabled to get an inter- 
esting glimpse of the number, names, and disposition of the tribes 
of this section in the year 1562, as also some important information 
regarding their ceremonies. From these sources it appears that on 
the west side of Broad River, opposite Port Royal Island, were 
four small tribes. The first encountered in going up is called by 
the FYench Audusta 3 or Adusta 4 , the second Touppa 3 or Toupa. 4 
Beyond this Le Moyne places Mayon, 4 omitting Hoya, 3 the fourth, 
from his map entirely. From the order in which Laudonniere 
enumerates the tribes, however, it would seem probable that Hoya 
lay between Touppa and Mayon; at any rate it was in the immediate 
neighborhood. Farther toward the north, apparently on the chan- 
nel between Port Royal Island and the mainland, was Stalame. 4 
These five, according to the chief, Audusta, were in alliance, or 
rather on terms of friendship, with each other. 5 Farther along in 
the narrative we learn of a chief called Maccou living on the channels 
southwest of Port Royal Sound. 6 It should be noted that, following 
the feudal custom then prevalent in Europe, the chiefs in this narra- 
tive are given the names of their tribes. Yet more toward the 
south, beyond Maccou, lived two chiefs, said to be bro there. The 
1 Hist. Not. de la Floride, pp. 15-59. 4 Le Moyne, op. cit. 
1 Nurr. of Le Moyne, map. » Laudonniere, op. cit., p. 41. 
i Laudonniere, op. cit., p. 42. « Ibid., p. 47, 
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