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nearer was named Ouad6, the more distant Couexis (Covexis). 1 
According to the narrative of Laudonniere they found Ouade on the 
river they had named "Belle," and, since messengers sent by Ouade 
to Couexis for a quantity of provisions, returned with it very early 
the next day, it is evident that Couexis was only a short distance 
beyond. 2 From what has already been said and from other parts 
of Laudonniere's narrative it is evident that all these tribes except 
the two last mentioned were close friends, and we may suspect that 
they were related. Ouade and Couexis, though not hostile to the 
others, seem to have stood apart from them, but there is no internal 
evidence that the languages of any of them differed in the slightest 
degree. 3 Of the first group there seems little doubt that Audusta or 
Adusta was the tribe afterwards known as Edisto, although they 
were some distance from the river which now bears their name, the 
shores of which were apparently occupied by them at a later period. 
The name Hoya does not occur in Carolina documents, but it is 
given by Ibarra, Vandera, and the missionary Juan Rogel in the 
forms Oya, Hoya, or Ahoya. 4 Vandera mentions another place 
near Ahoya called Ahoyabe, "a little town subject to Ahoya." 5 
Maccou is the tribe which appears in these Spanish accounts as 
Escamacu or Uscamacu, " an island surrounded by rivers." 6 Touppa 
and Mayon can not be found in Spanish narratives, nor are we able 
to identify them with any names in the documents of South Caro- 
lina. Even in Laudonniere's history they seem to occupy a sub- 
ordinate position, and it is probable that in Pardo's time they had 
become united with the Orista, Escamacu, or Hoya. Very likely 
one of them is the Ahoyabe above noted. The failure of the Span- 
iards to mention Stalame may have a different meaning. This 
tribe lay somewhat apart from the others; away from the trail 
followed by Pardo in his various expeditions into the interior. Since 
we find in later times that the Audusta or Orista had affixed their 
name to Edisto River farther east it is possible that the Stalame had 
then moved still farther east, and I venture a guess, following a con- 
jecture of Mooney, that they are the Stono of later colonial history. 
Of the two tribes lying southward a complete continuity of infor- 
mation shows that Ouade was the Guale of the Spaniards and the 
Wallie of the English, and therefore that their home was near and 
gave its name to St. Catherines Island on the Georgia coast. Couexis 
would then apply to one of the Guale tribes or towns unless we are 
to discern in it an ancient form of the name Coosa. 
1 Laudonniere, Hist. Not. de la Floride, p. 47. 
2 Ibid., pp. 48, 51-52. 
3 See p. 18. 
< Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 188; Ruidiaz, La Florida, II, pp. 304, 481. 
6 Ruidiaz, La Florida, n, p. 481. 
a Ibid., pp. 304, 481. Also spelled Esoamaqu, Eescamaqu, Escamaquu, Escamatu,Camacu,and Camaqu 
(see p. 21). 
