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Nuestra Sefiora de la Candelaria de la Tama that among the Tama 
or Tamali. The Chines appear to have been another foreign tribe, 
though, like the resl , of Muskhogean origin. There are few references 
to them. The last mission on the list, Santa Cruz y San Pedro de 
Alcantara de Ychutafun, seems from other evidence to have been 
located in a true Apalachee town established in later times on the 
banks of the Apalachicola River and thus to the westward of the 
original Apalachee country. Since tafa was a name for "town" 
peculiar to the Apalachee dialect, of which tafwn would be the objec- 
tive form, and ichu, itcu, or itco a common Muskhogean word for 
"deer," it is probable that the native name signifies "Deer town." 
The settlement may have been made at this place because deer were 
plentiful there. 
In addition to the above we have notice in two or three places of 
a mission called Santa Maria. The Van Loon map of 1705 has a 
legend stating that this mission had been destroyed by the Alabama 
in the year in which the map was published. About the same time 
(1702) we hear of a town called Santa Fe. 1 In 1677 there existed a 
mission called San Damian de Cupayca. The town is mentioned in 
a letter of 1639. 2 San Marcos belongs to a later period. 
We have, besides, the native names of some towns not identified 
with the mission stations. They are Iniahica, Calahuchi, Uzela, 
Ochete, Aute, Yapalaga, Bacica, Talpatqui, Capola, and Ilcombe. 
The first four appear only in the De Soto narratives. Iniahica is 
spelled Iviahica by Ranjel, Iniahico by Biedma, and is given as 
Anhayca Apalache by Elvas. 3 It can not be identified in later 
documents and t he name may be in Timucua. Calahuchi is mentioned 
by Ranjel 4 and Uzela by Elvas. 5 Ochete is located by Elvas 8 
leagues south of Iniahica. 5 Aute was a town visited by Narvaez, eight 
or nine days journey south, or probably rather southwest, of the main 
Apalachee towns. 6 Garcilasso gives this appellation to the town of 
Ochete, but the distance of the latter from the main Apalachee 
towns does not at all agree with that given for the Aute of Narvaez. 
Yapalaga is entered on most of the more detailed maps of the eight- 
eenth century. Bacica, as well as Bacuqua, already given in the 
mission lists, seems to have been somewhat removed from the other 
Apalachee towns, yet probably belonged to them. Its name is per- 
petuated in Wacissa River and town. Talpatqui appears in the 
Apalachee letter of 1688. 7 Possibly it was identical with Talimali 
and therefore with San Luis. Capola and Ilcombe appear as Apa- 
lachee towns on the Popple map of 1733 (pi. 4). As the first of 
i See p. 120. 5 Ibid., I, p. 47. 
2 Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., pp. 200, 208. 6 Bandelier, Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, p. 29. 
» Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, i, p. 47; n, pp. 7, 79. ' Buckingham Smith, Two Docs. 
* Ibid., n, p. 79. 
