138 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
we know by the Lamhatty document, they were partly destroyed 
and partly driven away by other Indians. As Lamhatty was him- 
self a Tawasa, and since he represents all of the ten towns to have 
been Tawasa as well, it will be best to give his statement in this 
place in the form in which it was recorded by Robert Beverley: 
The foregoing year y P Tusckaroras made war on y e Towasas & destroyed 3 of theyr 
nations (the whole consisting of ten) haveing disposed of theyr prisoners they re- 
turned again & in y° Spring of y e year 1707 they swept away 4 nations more, the other 
2 fled, not to be heard of. 1 
The rest consists of an account of the personal fortunes of Lam- 
hatty himself which do not concern us. If the dates given are 
correct that set by Penicaut for the appearance of the Tawasa at 
Mobile, 1705, would seem to be an error. At any rate we know that 
the Tawasa, or a part of them, did seek refuge with the French. 
Penicaut's account of their coming is as follows: 
In the beginning of this year [1705] a nation of savages, named the Touachas, came to 
find M. de Bienville at Mobile in order to ask of him a place in which to establish itself; 
he indicated to them a piece of land a league and a half below the fort, where they 
remained while we were established at Mobile. These savages are good hunters, and 
they bring to us every day all kinds of game. They brought in addition to their mova- 
bles, much corn with which to sow the lands which M. de Bienville had given them. 
They had left the Spaniards to come to live on the French soil, because they were 
every day exposed to the incursions of the Alibamons, and they were not supported by 
the Spaniards. 2 
In 1710, according to the same authority, the year in which the 
position of the post of Mobile was changed, the Indians were relo- 
cated also, or at least some of them, and he says: 
The Taouachas were also placed on the river [Mobile], adjoining the Apalaches and 
one league above them. They had also left the Spaniards on account of wars with the 
Alibamons; they are not Christians like the Apalaches, the only Christian nation which 
has come from the neighborhood of the Spaniards. 3 
Whether due to persistent tradition regarding the early home of 
this tribe or to the fact that some individuals belonging to it did 
remain in their old country, we find a Tawasa town laid down among 
the Lower Creeks on several maps, as, for instance, the Purcell map 
(pi. 7). 
It is strange that, as in the case of the Chatot, La Harpe is silent 
regarding the time when these people came to Mobile or the circum- 
stances attending their coming, but there are notes in his work which 
attest that they were certainly there. Thus he says that ' ' in the month 
of March [1707] the Parcagoules [Pascagoula] declared war on the 
Touacha Nation. M. de Bienville reconciled them." 4 The 16th 
of the following November he notes that "some Touachas came to 
the fort with four scalps and a young slave of the Albika [Abihka] 
i Amor. Anthrop., n. s. vol. x, p. 568. 3 Ibid., p. 486. 
8 Penicaut in Margry, v, p. 457. 4 La Harpe, Jour. Hist., p. 101. 
