BWANTON] BAKLY HISTORY OF TH K. CREEK INDIANS 141 
Bawkins's description applies the Alabama divided, part moving 
into Louisiana to 1><> near the French, part remaining with the Eng- 
lish and subsequently accompanying the rest of the Creeks into 
what is now Oklahoma. Some of I he Tawasa evidently went to 
Louisiana, because the name is still remembered by the descendants 
of t hat port ion of < he tribe and t he father of one of my most intelligent 
informants among them was a Tawasa. The majority, however, 
would seem to have remained with the Creeks, since Tawasa and 
Autauga are the only names of Alabama towns which appear on 
the census roll of 1832. 1 
In Bawkins's timePawoktiwasthenameof one of the four Alabama 
towns. From the resemblance between the name of the tribe and 
and Pouhka, one of those given on the Lamhatty map, 2 and from 
the fact that two other Alabama towns, Tawasa and Autauga, are 
known to have come from the same region, it may be suspected 
that the two were identical and that the Pawokti and Tawasa had 
had similar histories. 
Hawkins's description of the town occupied by this tribe as it 
existed in 1799 is given with his account of the other Alabama 
towns on |>:1LTC 197. 3 
THE SAWOKLI 
The earliest home of the Sawokli of which we have any indication 
was upon or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, probably in the 
neighborhood of Ohoctawhatchee Bay. Thus Barcia refers to "the 
Provinces of Pancacola, Sabacola, and others, upon the ports and 
hays of the Gulf of Mexico," 4 and the position above given agrees 
very well with that assigned to them, under the name "Sowoolla," 
upon t he Lamhatty map. 5 
In a letter written in the year 1680 Gov. Cabrera of Florida says: 
The Cazique Saucola, distant forty leagues from Apalache, came [to the Apalache 
missions] and three monks went [back] with him, but with no results. 6 
Fray Francisco Gutierrez de Vera, writing May 19, 1681, from 
this new province, is naturally more optimistic than Cabrera, who 
was by no means favorable to the missionaries. He says: 
Thirty adults have been baptized in two months, including the head chief and 
I w< < sons, and his stepfather, and now, on knowing the prayers, his mother will be 
alf •. the casique govemador, his wife, and three children, and a grandson who has no 
family, five sons of the principal enixa, two henixas, and other leading men with 
their wives and families. 6 
i Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st. s*s., pp. 258-259; « Barcia, La Florida, p. 324. 
r :ift, Ind. Tribes, rv, p. 578. '■> Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. X, p. 571. 
'Amrr. Anthrop., n.s. vol. x, p. 571. e Lowery, MSS. 
» i ;a. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 36. 
