s wanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 211 
(1733), D'Anville (1746, 1755), Bellin (1750-55), John Rocque 
(1754-61), Bowen and Gibson (1755), S r Le Roque (1755), Mitchell 
(1755, 1777), Bowles (1763?), D'Anville altered by Bell (1768), 
D'Anville by Evans (1771), and Andrews (1777). Another appears 
on the Ocmulgee, oftenest on a small southern affluent of it, in the 
maps of Moll (1720), Popple (1733), Bellin (1750-55), and in H0- 
mann's Atlas (1759). This seems to mean that there was a Tuskegee 
village among the Lower Creeks, originally on Ocmulgee River, and 
alter the Yamasee war on the Chattahoochee. The town is referred 
to in a letter of Matheos, the Apalachec lieutenant under the governor 
of Florida, written May 19, 1686. * Evidently it was then on or near 
the Ocmulgee. In a letter of September 20, 1717, Diego Pena in 
narrating his journey to the Lower Creeks says that he spent the 
night at "Tayquique," evidently intended for Tasquique, "within 
a short league" of Coweta. It must have been on the Chattahoo- 
chee, at a place given on none of the maps. 2 
TENNESSEE RIVER TRIBES OF UNCERTAIN RELA- 
TIONSHIP 
We have had occasion to notice several tribes or portions of tribes 
in the valley of the Tennessee or even farther north whose history is in 
some way bound up with that of the better-known peoples of the Creek 
Confederacy. Thus the Tamahita came from the upper Tennessee 
or one of its branches, part of the Koasati and part of the Tuskegee 
were on the Tennessee, and there are indications that the same was 
true of part of the Taman. Perhaps another case of the kind is fur- 
nished by the Oconee. 3 Still another people divided into a northern 
and southern band were the Yuchi, whose principal residence was 
Savannah River, but part of whom were on the Tennessee. There 
were, however, two tribes in the north not certainly represented 
among the southern Muskhogeans and not certainly Muskhogean, 
but of sufficient importance in connection with the general problem 
of southern tribes to receive notice here. 
One of these was the Tali, a tribe which appears first in the De 
Soto narratives. It is not mentioned by Biedma or Garcilasso, and 
Elvas gives it but scant attention, 4 but from what Ranjel says it was 
evidently of some importance. His account is as follows: 
Friday, July 9 [1540], the commander and his army departed from Coste and crossed the 
other branch of the river and passed the night on its banks. And on the other side 
was Tali, and since the river flows near it and is large, they were not able to cross it. 
And the Indians, believing that they would cross, sent canoes and in them their wives 
1 Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., pp. 194-195. 
1 Ibid., p. 229. For a more particular account of the later condition and ethnology of these people 
see Speck, The Creek Indians of Taskigi town, in Mem. Am. Anthr. Asso., n, pt. 2. 
a See p. 179. 
« Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, pp. 80-81. 
