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engaged in building a new hot house. 1 Presumably this was the first 
to be erected after their return from the Tombigbee. 
Swan's reference, 1792, is the last we hear of the tribe. 2 They 
probably united with the Koasati or the Alabama. 
THE MUKLASA 
Still another town in this neighborhood not speaking Muskogee 
was Muklasa. The name means "friends" or "people of one nation" 
in Alabama, Koasati, or Choctaw, therefore it is probable that the 
town was Alabama or Koasati, the Choctaw being at a considerable 
distance. According to the list of 1761 it was then estimated to 
contain 30 hunters. William Trewin and James Germany were the 
traders. 3 In 1797 the trader was Michael Elhart, "an industrious, 
honest man; a Dutchman." 4 Bartram visited it in 1777, 5 and in 1799 
Hawkins gives the following account of it: 
Mook-lau-sau is a small town one mile below Sau-va-noo-gee, on the left bank of a 
fine little creek, and bordering on a cyprass swamp; their fields are below those of 
Sau-va-no-gee, bordering on the river; they have some lots about their houses fenced 
for potatoes: one chief has some cattle, horses, and hogs; a few others have some cattle 
and hogs. 
In the season of floods the river spreads out on this side below the town, nearly 
eight miles from bank to bank, and is very destructive to game and stock. 6 
After the Creek war we are informed that the Muklasa emigrated 
to Florida in a body. At all events we do not hear of them again, 
and the Creeks in Oklahoma have forgotten that such a town ever 
existed. Gatschet says "a town of that name is in the Indian Ter- 
ritory, " 7 but nobody could give the present writer any information 
regarding it. 
THE TUSKEGEE 
Many dialects were spoken anciently near the junction of the 
Coosa and Tallapoosa. Adair says: 
I am assured by a gentleman of character, who traded a long time near the late 
Alebahma garrison, that within six miles of it live the remains of seven Indian nations, 
who usually conversed with each other in their own different dialects, though they 
understood the Muskohge language; but being naturalized, they are bound to observe 
the laws and customs of the main original body. 8 
Some of these "nations" have already been considered. We now 
come to a people whose language has not been preserved to the 
preseni day. but they are known from statements made byTaitt and 
' Mereness, Trav. Am. Col., pp. .'>3<>-537. '■> Bartram, Travels, p. 444 et seq. 
- Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. « Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 35. 
3 Ga. Col. Does., vni, p. 523. » Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., i, p. 138. 
1 Hawkins in ' la. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. « Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 267. 
