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against his will. The next day, Thursday, 1 on the road leading toward the principal 
village of Coste, he stole away and gave the Spaniards the slip and armed his people. 
Friday, the 2d of July, the governor arrived at Coste. This village was on an 
island in the river, which there flows large, swift, and hard to enter. And the Chris- 
tians crossed the first branch with no small venture, and the governor entered into 
the village careless and unarmed, with some followers unarmed. And when the 
soldiers, as they were used to do, began to climb upon the barbacoas, in an instant the 
Indians began to take up clubs and seize their bows and arrows and to go to the open 
square. 
The governor commanded that all should be patient and endure for the evident 
peril in which they were, and that no one should put his hand on his arms; and he 
began to rate his soldiers and, dissembling, to give them some blows with a cudgel; and 
he cajoled the chief, and said to him that he did not wish the Christians to make him 
any trouble; and they would like to go out to the open part of the island to encamp. 
And the chief and his men went with him; and when they were at some distance from 
the village in an open place, the governor ordered his soldiers to lay hands on the 
chief and ten or twelve of the principal Indians, and to put them in chains and collars; 
and he threatened them, and said that he would burn them all because they had laid 
hands on the Christians. From this place, Coste, the governor sent two soldiers to 
view the province of Chisca, which was reputed very rich, toward the north, and they 
brought good news. There in Coste they found in the trunk of a tree as good honey 
and even better than could be had in Spain. In that river were found some muscles 
that they gathered to eat, and some pearls. And they were the first these Christians 
saw in fresh water, although they are to be found in many parts of this land. 2 
In one of the accounts of Juan Pardo's expedition of 1567 we are 
told that he turned back because he learned that the Indians of 
Carrosa, Costehe, Chisca, and Cosa had united against him. a This 
is the last mention of such a tribe by the Spaniards, and what we 
hear of the northern body of Koasati at a later period is little enough. 
We merely know that there was a Koasati village on the Tennessee 
River in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The "Cochali" 
of Coxe is probably a misprint for the name of this town. They 
were said to live on an island in the river just like the Costehe, 4 and 
Sauvolle, who derived his information from a Canadian who had 
ascended the Tennessee in the summer of 1701 with four companions, 
says that "the Cassoty and the Casquinonpa are on an island, which 
the river forms,, at the two extremities of which are situated these 
two nations." 5 They also gave their name to the Tennessee River. 
In the map reproduced in plate 3 we find "Cusatees 50 in 2 villages" 
laid down on a big island in the "Cusatees" or "Thegalegos River," 
just below the " Tohogalegas " (Yuchi),. and between the two a 
French fort. According to Mr. O. D. Street, Coosada was the name 
of a mixed settlement of Creeks and Cherokees established about 
1784 on the south bank of the Tennessee "at what is now called 
1 Probably Friday. 
2 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, H, pp. 109-111. 
3 Ruidiaz, La Florida, II, pp. 271-272. 
« French, Hist. Tolls. La., 1850, p. 230. 
6 MS. in Lib. La. Hist. Soc, Louisiane, Correspondence Generate, pp. 403-404. Mr. W. E. Myer, the 
well-known student of Tennessee archeology, thinks that this was Long Island. 
