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"he commanded that within two days should assemble all the micos 
of Oya and Alueste and other chiefs from the country around." ' 
In Oya we recognize 4 the Cusabo town already mentioned, and we 
Learn just below that Alueste was in the same province; for, when 
Ibarra inquired of the assembled chiefs if any of them had any 
complaints to make, "the chief of Aluete said that the chief of 
Talapo and the chief of Ufalague and the chief of Orista, his nephew 
and heirs, were his vassals and had risen and gone to live with the 
mico of Asao." 2 
When Ibarra returned to Asao he interviewed these chiefs, and 
he states that they admitted the truth of what Alueste had said, 
adding that they had done so "because he was a bad Indian and 
had a bad heart, and he gave them many bad words, and for that 
reason they had withdrawn and were obeying the chief of Orista, 
who was the heir of the said Alueste, and was a good Indian and 
treated them well, and gave them good words." The governor, 
however, exacted a promise from them that they would ''return to 
their obedience," to which they agreed. 3 It is sufficiently evident 
from this that all of the tribes mentioned were Cusabo, whether 
Alueste and Orista are or are not variants of the later Edisto. Re- 
sponsibility for the murder of the missionaries in 1597 was laid by 
one of the captured Indians on the Indians of Cosahue (Cosapue), 
the Salchiches (an unidentified tribe living inland), the Indians of 
Tulufina (a Guale town), and those of Santa Elena. The chiefs of 
Ufalague and Sufalete are said to have killed Fray Pedro de Corpa, 
and the Ufalague and Alueste assisted in disposing of Fray Bias, but, 
on the other hand, the chief of Talapo saved the life of Fray Davila, 
the only missionary to escape. At a later date, by a comfortable 
volte-face not unusual with Indians, those of Cosapue and Ufalague, 
together with those of Talapo, helped punish the murderers. 4 
From about the time of this massacre we begin to find the name 
Escamacu used for the Indians of Santa Elena in preference to 
Orista. In the report of his expedition of 1605, Ecija speaks of the 
chief of Escamacu as "the principal of that land" (i. e., the land of 
Santa Elena), and he places "the bar of Orista" 6 leagues north of 
that of Santa Elena, where is the River Edisto. Nevertheless the 
name had become fixed upon it at a much earlier period for in a 
letter of Bartolome de Arguelles, of date 1586, the bay of Orista is 
said to be beyond that of Santa Elena to the north, 5 leagues. 4 It 
is evident, therefore, that whatever temporary changes had taken 
place in the residence of portions of the Edisto tribe, changes such 
as are indicated in Ibarra's letter, a part of them, probably the main 
i Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 186. * Ibid., p. 191. 
nbid., pp. 188-189. * Lowery and Brooks, MSS., Lib. Cong. 
