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only specific information of any sort regarding their manners and 
customs. 
For some years after the period of this narrative we hear not a 
word regarding the tribe, and when they reappear it is on the De 
Crenay map as "Tamaitaux," on the east bank of the Chattahoo- 
chee above the Chiaha and nearly opposite a part of the Sawokli. 1 
A little later Adair enumerates the "Ta-me-tah" among those tribes 
which the Muskogee had induced to incorporate with them. 2 They 
appear among other Lower Creek towns in the enumeration of 1 750, 
placed between the northern Sawokli town and the Kasihta. 3 On 
one of the D'Anville maps of early date we find "Tamaita" laid 
down on the west bank of the Coosa not far above its junction with 
the Tallapoosa. The Koasati town was just below. In the list of 
Creek towns given in 1761 in connection with the assignment of 
traderships we find this entry: "27 Coosawtee including Tomhe- 
taws." The hunters of the two numbered 125 and they were located 
"close to the French barracks" where was the Koasati town from 
very early times. 4 Thus it appears that some at least of the Tama- 
hita had moved over among the Upper Creeks sometime between 
1733 and 1761 or perhaps earlier. Bernard Romans, on January 17, 
1772, when descending the Tombigbee River, mentions passing the 
"Tomeehettee bluff, where formerly a tribe of that nation resided/' 5 
and Hamilton identifies this bluff with Mcintosh's Bluff, a former 
location of the Tohome tribe. 6 It is probable that some Tamahita 
moved over to this river at the same time as the Koasati and Okchai, 
a little before Romans's time, and afterwards returned with them to 
the upper Alabama. 
Memory of them remained long among the Lower Creeks, since an 
aged informant of the writer, a Hitchiti Indian, born in the old coun- 
try, claimed to be descended from them. According to him there was 
a tradition that the Tamahita burned a little trading post belonging 
to the English, whereupon the English called upon their Creek allies 
to punish the aggressors. The Tamahita were much more numerous 
than their opponents, but were not very warlike, and were driven 
south to the very point of Florida, where they escaped in boats to 
some islands. This tradition appears to be the result of an erroneous 
identification of the Tamahita with the Timucua. There is no evi- 
dence that the Creeks had a war with the former people. 
After the above account had been prepared some material came 
under the eye of the writer tending to the conclusion that Tamahita 
must be added to that already long list of terms under which the 
' See plate 5; Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. « Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 524. 
2 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 257. » Romans, Nat. Hist. E. and W. Fla., p. 332. 
s MS., Ayer Coll. 6 Hamilton, op. cit., p. 106. See pp. 160-105. 
