bwautok] EARL'S HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 125 
and in fchal fact we have an evident reason for the return of the 
Apalachee to Florida which soon look place. He says: 
I beg to reporl toY. M. thai on the LOth of July of the present year [1717] there came 
t<» pledge obedience to Y. ML, Osingulo, Bon and heir of the Emperor of Caveta, accom- 
panied by Talialicha, 1 the greal general and captain of war, and the cacique Adrian 
[the Apalachee chief], who is a Christian, together with fifty-seven Indians their 
subjects. The) asked me for arms and ammunition for themselves and their people 
as there were many who were in need of them. 
Their entrance ha\ Lng been made with greal public ostentation, I ordered a salute to 
be fired by the guns of the royal fort. They reached the government houses amidsl 
greal rejoicings and their usual dance and song, "La Paloma," escorted by abody of 
infantry winch I had sent out to meet them. Myself, together with all the ministers 
and the officers of this garrison, receded them at the door of my residence. All of 
which will more extensively appear in the written testimony which I herewith 
enclose. 
They were splendidly treated and feasted during the time they remained here, not 
only on accounl of Y. M., bul also on my own and that of the city, 1 giving over my 
own residence to the caciques, in order to please them and to induce them to return 
satisfied. These attentions proved to beof great importance, as I will mention further. 
They left here on the 26th of the same month of July, 2 and I sent with them, to go as far 
as their provinces, a retired officer, lieutenant of cavalry, named Diego Pena, with 
twelve soldiers, in order that they ini-ht procure, either by purchase or exchange, 
some horses for the company of this garrison, for which purpose they carried with 
them Bufhcienl silver and goods and a very gorgeous and costly dress for the Emperor 
as a present, together with a cane and a fine hat with plumes. When they arrived at 
a place called < 'aveta. sit uated L60 leagues from this city, which is the residence of the 
Empen >r, I hey found there twelve Englishmen and a negro from Carolina, of those who 
had l »een previous! y engaged in destroying the country, who were on horseback. They 
were there with presents for the Emperor in order to draw him to their side and turn 
him from this go eminent and from the obedience pledged to Y. M. But when his 
son, the cacique, who had left here so much gratified, saw that his father, the Emperor, 
was consenting to the presence of the Englishmen there, he attempted to take up arms 
against his father Ai the same time the dissatisfied Indians, those in favor of the 
English, were getting ready to fire on our aforesaid soldiers, which they would have 
done had not the said < taingulo and the great general of war, Talichaliche, together 
with the Christian cacique Adrian and the subjects of his towns, who were many, 
taken the part of the Spaniards and accompanied them back to this city, with the 
exception of the said Osingulo, who started hence for Pensacola in quest of arms and 
an i in unit ion and men in order to drive the English away and punish those dissatisfied 
Indians who obeyed his lather. 3 
To all intents and purposes, then, the English faction, which included 
the head chief of Coweta, remained masters of the situation. Shortly 
afterwards we hear of bands of Apalachee asking permission to estab- 
lish themselves near the Spanish settlements. 
In 1717 a Spanish officer reports Apalachee dispersed in west 
Florida, near their former country. 4 A part of them removed, how- 
ever, to Pensacola, probably to be near their congeners at Mobile. 
i Spelled Talichaliche belo\< . 
- Barcia(La Florida, p. 329)says the 26th of A.ugust. 
3 Brooks. MSS ., Miss Brooks's translation with some emendations: also see Barcia, La Florida, p. 329. 
* Serrano y Sana, Doc. Hist., p. 228. 
