swanton] r.AKl.Y EISTOR? 01 THE CREEK INDIANS 109 
Leadership of a chief named Tomochichi. These are said to have 
been banished from their own country for some crimes and misde- 
meanors. Tomochichi himself had "tarried for a season with the 
Palla-Clmcolas" before settling there, and it must he remembered 
that before the Yamasee war the Apalachicola tribe had been located 
upon Savannah River some 50 miles higher up. It is therefore 
likely thai tie belonged to some refugee Yamasee among the Apala- 
chicola, and his occasion for settling in this place may have been as 
much because it was the land of his ancestors as because he had been 
"outlawed." Indeed he says as much in his speech to Oglethorpe. 
In 1732 the Yamacraw asked permission of the government of 
South Carolina to remain in their new settlement and it was accorded 
them. When Oglethorpe arrived they are said to have been the only 
tribe for 50 miles around. The3 T received the settlers in a friendly man- 
ner and acted as intermediaries between them and the Creeks. From 
the negotiations then undertaken it would seem that both the Yama- 
craw and the Yamasee were reckoned as former members of the Creek 
confederacy. At least the confederacy arrogated to itself at that 
time the right to dispose of their lands, all of which, except the site 
of Yamacraw, a strip of land between Pipemakers Bluff and Pally- 
Chuckola Creek, and the three islands, Ossabaw, Sapello, and St. 
Catherines, were ceded to Oglethorpe. Tomochichi, his wife, nephew, 
and a few of his warriors went to England in 1734, where they 
received much attention. A painting. of Tomochichi and his nephew, 
Tonahowi, was made by Verelst, and from this engravings were 
afterwards made by Faber and Kleinsclimidt. 1 Tomochichi died 
October 5, 1739, 2 and the Yamacraw population declined rather 
than increased. After a time they moved to another situation later 
known as New Yamacraw, 3 but ultimately those that were left 
probably retired among their kindred in the Creek Nation, and we 
may conjecture that they united with the Creek band of Yamasee 
mentioned above. 
The Yamasee made a considerable impression on Creek imagina- 
tion and are still remembered by a few of the older Creek Indians. 
According to one of my informants, a Hitchiti, they lived north of 
the Creeks, which was in any sense true of them only when they 
were located in South Carolina. It was from this tribe, according 
to the same informant, that many of the Creek charms known as 
sabia came. 
THE APALACHEE 
The third Muskhogean group to be considered is known to history 
under the name Apalachee, a word which in Hitchiti, a related 
dialect, seems to signify "on the other side." The Apalachee proper 
■ See Jones, Hist. Sketch of Tomo-chi-chi;; Tailfer, A true and hist. narr. of the colony of Georgia. 
2 Jones, Ibid., p. 121. 
s Tailfer, op. oil., p. 74. 
