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map with other authorities. Ohe-au-choo-chee is laid down on the 
Early map just opposite Hitchiti town, but for some reason or other 
the town of Chiaha itself was overlooked, and Hawkins describes it 
exactlywhere the French census places it, just below Osochi (Ouchou- 
tchis). Instead of the first Sau-woo-ga-loo-chee lie also liasSau-woo- 
ge-lo, for which Choothlo is certainly intended. Tchoualas is -also 
probably intended for Sawokli or Sawoklo. and in position it cor- 
responds to a town called Kawaigi, said to be a Sawokli offshoot. 
Oeyakbe means "water (or river) fork" in Muskogee and Oke-te-yo- 
con-ne, "zigzag stream land," in Hitchiti. The same town is probably 
intended by them. In only three cases, Ohaouakle, Omolquet, and 
Tchoualas, does the census of 1760 contain names not represented 
on the Early map, and in only one case, Cowetau Tal-la-has-see, does 
the Early map contain a name not represented in the census of 
1760. As this last was an outvillage of Cowetau its omission is 
readily explained. Aeykite, like Hitch-e-tee, is placed between 
Chiaha and Apalachicola, and with the exception of Che-au-choo-chee, 
which was of course only an outsettlement of Chiaha, and the Westo 
town, which disappeared at an early date, no town is laid down on 
any other map known to me between the two aforesaid places. In 
fact, the distance between them is not great. If Aeykite is not 
identical with Hitch-e-tee we must not only assume a distinct town 
of the name not otherwise explained, but we must assume that 
Hitchiti is the only important town omitted from the French census, 
a rather unlikely happening. To the writer the conclusion seems 
quite overwhelming that Aeykite refers to the Hitchiti town, and if 
that be the case Ocute probably does also. The latest use of this 
particular term seems to be by Manuel Garcia (1800) when it appears 
in the form "Oakjote." 1 The Spanish census of 1738 has an inter- 
mediate form " Ayjichiti." ' 
Assuming, then, that Ocute and Aeykite are synonyms for Hitchiti, 
we will now proceed to trace the history of this tribe. 
Elvas says: 
Tin governor [De Soto] set out [from Achese] on the first day of April [1540] and 
advanced through the country of the chief, along up a river, the shores of which were 
very populous. On the fourth he went through the town of Altamaca, and on the 
tenth arrived at Oeute. 2 
And elsewhere he adds: 
The land of Ocute is more strong and fertile than the rest, the forest more open, 
and it has very good fields along the margins of the rivers. 3 
Ranjel says that, after passing Altamaha they met a chief named 
Qamumo, who. along with others, was a subject of "a great chief 
i Copy of MS. in Aver Coll., Newberry Lib. ' Ibid., p. 220. 
1 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, i, p. 56. 
