bwajppon] EARLY BISTORT or THE CREEK tNDIANS 165 
places, the lirsf date being in 1715, the last in 1761.' The Tohome 
and Xaniaha conic to the surface still later in a French document 
dated some time before the cession of Mobile to Groat Britain (1 763) 3 
and in a list of Choctaw towns and chiefs compiled by the English, 
1771-72. 3 It is probable that the languages spoken by them were 
so close to Choctaw that they afterwards passed as Choctaw and, 
mingling with the true Choctaw, in time forgot their own original 
separateness. And this probability is strengthened by a Choctaw 
census made by Kegis du Roullet, a French officer, in 1730, who 
classes the Tohome, Naniaba, and some Indians "aux mobiliens" 
as "Choctaw established on the river of Mobile." 4 
THE OSOCHI 
On an earlier page I hare registered my belief that the origin of the 
Osochi is to be sought in that Florida '"province" through which 
De Soto passed shortly before reaching the Apalachee. The name is 
given variously as Ucachile, 5 Uzachil, 6 Veachile, 7 and Ossachile. 8 
Since the Timucua chief Uriutina speaks of the Ucachile as "of our 
nation," 9 while the chief of Ucachile is said to be "kinsman of the 
chief of Caliquen," it may be inferred that the tribe then spoke a 
Timucua dialect."' If this were really the case it is strange that, in- 
stead of retiring farther into Florida with the rest of the Timucua, 
these people chose to move northward entirely away from the old 
Timucua country. Nevertheless, Spanish documents do inform us 
of one northward movement as an aftermath of the Timucua rebellion 
in 1656. 11 Other evidence seeming to mark out various steps in the 
migration of these people has been adduced already, 12 mention being 
made of "Tommakees" near the mouth of Apalachicola River about 
1700 by Coxe, 13 " Tomooka" in the same region by Lamhatty in 1707, 14 
and a town or tribe near the junction of the Apalachicola and Flint 
Rivers called "Apalache 6 Sachile" at a considerably later date. 15 The 
6 in the last term lias been mistaken by the cartographer for the Span- 
ish connective 6, but there can be no doubt that it belongs properly 
with what follows. Osochi is always accented on the first syllable. 
The spot indicated on this map is that at which the Apalachicola 
Indians settled after the Yamasee war. We must suppose, then, 
i Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 108. "However, it is to be noted that the tribes 
2 Miss. 1'rov. Arch., i, p. 26. southeast of Oeilla River are spoken of as consti- 
3 lib. Cong., M8S. tuting the Yustaga province, which is sometimes 
* French Transcriptions, Lib. Cong. distinguished from the Timucua province proper. 
' Bourne, Narr. ol He Soto, u, p. 73 » See p. 338. 
•Ibid., i, p. 41. "Seep. 26. 
7 Ibid., ii, p. C. ,3 French, Hist. Colls. La., 1850, p. 2)4. 
8 Shipp's De Soto and Fla., p. 299. h Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. x, p. 571. 
• Bourne, op. cit., n, p. 75. "ITarnilton, Col. Mobile, p. 210; Ruidiaz, La 
Florida, 1, xlv. 
