swan-tun] KAIM.Y HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 61 
body, had become settled upon the stream which still bears their 
name by the date last given. 
The first clear notice of the Stono seems to be in the narrative of 
Ecija's second voyage, 1609. When he was in the port of Cayagua 
(Charleston Harbor) on his return he encountered a canoe, in which 
were the chiefs of Cayagua, Escamacu, and "Ostano." In the pilot's 
description at the end of this narrative we read, "From the bar of 
Orista to that of Ostano are 4 leagues." The opening was narrow 
and the distance to the bar of Cayagua 8 leagues. 1 From the figures 
it seems clear that this was not the present Stono Inlet, but North 
Edisto River. The possibility that this tribe was the Stalame of 
Landonniere and that it moved eastward in later times has already 
been indicated. 
A letter written June 17, 1617, by the Florida friars, complaining 
of conditions, mentions Santa Elena among those provinces where 
there were then no missions. 1 In another from the governor of 
Florida, dated November 15, 1633, we learn that the chief of Satua- 
che, "more than 70 leagues" from St. Augustine, had brought to the 
capital three Englishmen who had been shipwrecked on his coast. 
This place lay from 6 to 10 leagues north of Santa Elena and seems 
from the context to have been newly missionized. 2 The position 
given would place it near the mouth of Edisto River. From a letter 
written in 1647 it appears that the Indians of "Satoache" had 
entirely abandoned their town, 1 yet they are mentioned, under the 
name Chatuache, in a list of missions dated 1655, in which San 
Felipe also appears. 3 However, the fort seems never to have been 
rebuilt, and the missions were nothing more than outstations served 
at long intervals. 
In 1670, when the English colony of South Carolina was estab- 
lished, there was no Spanish post east of the Savannah and no mission 
station nearer than St. Catherines Island, although traces of former 
Spanish occupancy were evident at Port Royal (Santa Elena). The 
Edisto were still on Edisto River and the Stono near the place occu- 
pied by them at the beginning of the century. The term "Indians 
of St. Helens" probably includes the Escamacu and related tribes. 
The Coosa were on the upper courses of the Cusabo rivers, where 
they seem to have lived throughout the Spanish period. The Kiawa 
of Ashley River are of course the "Cayagua" of the Spaniards, and 
are in precisely the same location ; the neighboring Wando on Cooper 
River and Etiwaw or Itwan on Wando River — particularly about 
Daniels Island 4 — are perhaps referred to in one or two Spanish docu- 
' Lower? and Brooks, MSS., Lib. Cong. » P. 322; Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 132. 
' Lowery, MSS., Lib. Cong. «S. Car. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, p. 386. 
