130 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
that this town "is considered as the Mother & Governing Town of 
the whole Nation." ' 
It is quite probable, as we shall see later, that it was a tribe of con- 
siderable size, often scattered among several settlements. In spite of 
the resemblance which its name bears to that of the Apalachee I am 
inclined to think that there was only a remote relationship between the 
two peoples, although the meanings of the two words may have 
been something alike. The ending of the name resembles okli, the 
Hitchiti word for "people." Judge G. W. Stidham told Dr. 
Gatschet that he had heard the name was derived from the ridge of 
earth around the edge of the square ground made in sweeping it. 2 
In recent times Apalachicola has always been classed- by the Creeks 
as a Hitchiti-speaking town, while the fragment of Apalachee that 
has come down to us shows that language to have been an independent 
dialect. 
According to Creek legend the Apalachicola were found in posses- 
sion of southwestern Georgia when the Muskogee invaded that sec- 
tion. 3 In 1680 two Franciscans were sent into the Province of 
Apalachicola to begin missionary work, but the Coweta chief would 
not allow them to remain, and the effort was soon abandoned. 4 
A great deal of light has been thrown upon the ethnographical 
complexion of the region along Apalachicola River by the discovery 
by Mr. D. I. Bushnell, Jr., of an old manuscript already alluded to 
(p. 13), preserved among the Ludwell papers in the archives of the Vir- 
ginia Historical Society. 5 This gives the account of an Indian named 
Lamliatty, who was captured by a band of "Tusckaroras," in reality 
probably Creeks, and who, after having been taken through various 
Creek towns, was sold to the Shawnee. Later he came northward 
with a hunting party of Shawnee, escaped from them, and reached 
the Virginia settlements. As much of his story as he was able to 
communicate was taken down by Robert Beverly, the historian, and 
on the reverse side of the sheet containing it was traced a map of the 
region through which Lamliatty had come, as Lamhatty himself 
understood it. In his narrative this Indian represents himself us 
belonging to the Tawasa, or, as he spells it, "Towasa," people, 
which he says consisted of 10 "nations." In the year 1706, however, 
the " Tusckaroras " (or Creeks?) made a descent upon them and 
carried off three of the "nations." In the spring of 1707 they 
carried off four more, and two fled. The narrative says "the other 
two fled," but that would leave one still to be accounted for. It is 
difficult to know just what Lamhatty means by the 10 "nations." 
On his map there are indeed 10 towns laid down on and near the 
1 English Transcriptions, Lib. Cong. « Lowery, MSS. 
2 Creek Mig. Leg., i, p. 127. & Published in Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. x, pp. 568-574, 
3 Ibid., p. 250. 
