swantos] EARL'S HISTORV OF THE CREEK INDIANS 201 
there was William Trewin. 1 It is not separately mentioned by Bar- 
tram qot certainly by Swan, but is probably intended by the town 
which he calls " Wacksoyochees. " 2 Hawkins gives the following 
description: 
lliH)k-<hoie-oo-che, a pretty little compact town, between O-che-au-po-fau and 
Tus-kee-gee, on the left hunk of Coosau; the houses join those of Tus-kee-gee; the land 
around the town is a high, poor level, with high-land ponds; the corn fields are on the 
left side of Tallapoosa, on rich low grounds, on a point called Sam-bul-loh, and below 
the mouth of the creek of that name which joins on the right side of the river. 
They have a good stock of hogs, and a few cattle and horses; they formerly lived on 
the right bank of Coosau, just above their present site, and removed lately, on account 
of the war with the Chickasaws. Their stock ranges on that side of the river ; they have 
fenced all the small fields about their houses, where they raise their peas and potatoes; 
their fields at Sam-bul-loh, are under a good fence; this was made by Mrs. Durant, the 
oldest sister of the late General McGillivray, for her own convenience. 3 
This town does not appear in the census list of 1832, unless it is one 
of the two Fishpond towns there given, "Fish Pond" and "Tholl thlo 
coe. " After the removal to Oklahoma it is said to have maintained 
its separate square for a short time, and, as has been said, its name 
is retained as a busk designation of all the Alabama. 
THE KOASATI 
The Koasati Indians, as showTi by their language, are closely 
related to the Alabama. There were at one time two branches of 
this tribe — one close to the Alabama, near what is now Coosada 
station, Elmore County, Ala., the other on the Tennessee River 
north of Langston, Jackson County. These latter appear but a few 
times in history, and the name was considerably garbled by early 
writers. There is reason to believe, however, that it has the honor 
of an appearance in the De Soto chronicles, as the Coste of Ranjel, 4 
the Coste or Acoste of Elvas, 5 the Costehe of Biedma, 6 and the 
Acosta of Garcilasso. 7 The omission of the vowel between s and t 
is the only difficult feature in this identification. It is evident also 
that it was at a somewhat different point on the river from that 
above indicated, since it was on an island. The form Costehe, used 
also by Pardo, tends to confirm our identification, since it appears 
to contain the Koasati and Alabama suffix -ha indicating collec- 
tivity. Ranjel gives the following account of the experience of the 
explorers among these "Costehe:" 
On Thursday [July 1, 1540] the chief of Coste came out to receive them in peace, and 
he took the Christians to sleep in a village of his; and he was offended because some 
soldiers pr< >visi< med themselves from, or, rather, robbed him of, some barbacoas of com 
1 Oa. Col. Docs., vin, p. 524. s Ibid., i, p. 78. 
• Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 6 Ibid., n, p. 15. 
" <;a. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, p. 37. > Garcilasso in Shipp, De Soto and Fla., p. 373. 
• Hourne, Narr. of De Soto, n, p. 109. 
