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and sons and clothes from the other side; but they were all taken suddenly, and as 
they were going with the current, the governor forced them all to turn back, which 
was the reason that this chief came in peace and took them across to the other -side in 
his canoes, and gave the Christians what they had need of. And he did this also in 
his own land as they passed through it afterwards, and they set out Sunday and passed 
the night in the open country. 
Monday they crossed a river and slept in the open country. Tuesday they crossed 
another river and slept at Tasqui. During all the days of their march from Tali the 
chief of Tali had corn and mazamorras and cooked beans, and everything that could 
be brought from his villages bordering the way. 1 
The Tali now disappear from sight and are not heard of again until 
late in the seventeenth century, when they are found in approxi- 
mately the same position as 150 years earlier. 2 Daniel Coxe gives 
them as one of four small nations occupying as many islands in the 
Tennessee River.' He represents them as the nation farthest up- 
stream. In the summer of 1701 five Canadians ascended the Ten- 
nessee and reached South Carolina, and from one of these Sauvolle, 
Iberville's brother, who had been left in command of the French fort 
at Biloxi, obtained considerable information regarding the tribes then 
settled along that river. He embodied it in an official letter dated 
at Biloxi, August 4, 1701. From this it appears that the Canadians 
first came upon a Chickasaw town "about 140 leagues" from the mouth 
of the Ohio, then upon the "Taougale," a band of Yuchi, an unspeci- 
fied distance higher up, and "after that the Tale, where an English- 
man is established to purchase slaves, as they make war with many 
other nations." 4 
On the maps of the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of 
the eighteenth centuries this name is persistent. The tribe is gen- 
erally placed above the Tahogale, now known to have been a band of 
Yuchi, and below the Kaskinampo and Shawnee. The name of the 
Tennessee band of Koasati rarely appears. In another set of maps 
we find a different group of towns, one of which is called Taligui, 
and in still another, from the French, a set in which a town Talicouet 
is in evidence. There can be no doubt that Talicouet is the Cherokee 
town Tellico, since the maps show it in the proper position, and of 
the three other towns one, Aiouache, is evidently Hiwassee or 
Ayuhwa'si; while another, Amobi, is the Cherokee town Amoye which 
appears on some maps. The fourth, Tongeria, is the Tahogale of other 
cartographers. Taligui is evidently intended for the same town as 
Talicouet. These two forms combined with a well-known Algon- 
quian suffix would produce a name almost identical with that of 
the Talligewi of Delaware tradition. Mr. Mooney believes that the 
Talligewi were the Cherokee, 5 and this would tend to confirm the iden- 
« Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, n, pp. 111-112. 
2 Here, as throughout the present paper, I accept that theory of De Soto's route which carries him as 
far north as the Tennessee. 
a French, Hist. Colls. La., 1850, p. 230. 
* MS. in Library of the La. Hist. Soc; Louisiane, Correspondence Generate, 1678-1706, pp. 403-404; cf. 
French, Hist. Colls. La., 1851, p. 238. In French the name Tales has been miscopied "Cales." 
' 19th Ann. Rept. Tiur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 184-185. 
