swanton] EARLY BISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIAN'S 217 
any name in the De Soto narratives which resembles a Vuchi word 
c\ en remotely. 1 
The specific identification of this place with Kasihta rests mainly 
upon the early documents of the colony of South Carolina. In a 
letter from Henry Woodward, interpreter for the colonists, to Sir 
John Yeamans, dated September 10, 1670, the writer states that he 
had visited •'Cliufytachyqj y* fruitfull Provence where ye Emperour 
resides." "It lys," he says, "West & by Northe nearest from us 14 
days trauell after ye Indian manner of marchinge." 2 He is writing 
from near where Charleston, S. C, was afterwards built. In a letter 
to the Lords Proprietors from the same place, dated September 11, 
1670, the Council of the new colony mentions this expedition again, 
and calls the country "Chufytachyque." 3 It is also referred to in a 
letter written to Lord Ashley by Stephen Bull, only that the distance 
is given as ten days' journey. 4 In a letter from William Owen to 
Lord Ashley, written September 15, 1670, we read: 
The Emperour of Tatchequiha, a verie fruitfull eountrey som 8 days iourney to ye 
Northwest of vs. we expect here within 4 days, som of his people being alreadie com 
with whom he would haue bein had not he heard in his way y* ye Spaniard had de- 
feated vs. His friendPP with us is very considerable against ye Westoes if euer they 
intend to Molest us. He hath often defeated them and is euer their Master. The 
Indian Doctor tells us y* where he Hues is exceedinge rich and fertill generally of a 
red mould and hillie with most pleasant vallies and springes haueing plentie of white 
and black Marble and abundantly stored with Mulberries of w ch fruite they make cakes 
w ch 1 have tasted. 5 
From the context it is evident that Tatchequiha and Chufytachyqj 
were the same. Mr. Thomas Colleton adds the information that this 
potentate had a thousand bowmen in his town. 6 In the memoranda 
in John Locke's handwriting we find other spellings, "Caphatach- 
aques," 7 and Chufytuchyque. 8 In still another place he speaks of 
" the Emperor Cotachico at Charles town with 100 Indians." 9 In his 
instructions to Henry Woodward, dated May 23, 1674, Lord Shaftes- 
bury says: 
You are to consider whether it be best to make a peace with the Westoes or 
Cussitaws, which are a more powerful nation said to have pearle and silver and by 
whose Assistance the Westoes may be rooted out, but no peace is to be made with 
either of them without Including our Neighbour Indians who are at amity with us. 10 
Rivers has the following: 
Order for trade with the Westoes & Oussatoes Indians, 10 April 1677. 
Whereas ye discovery of ye Country of ye Westoes & ye Cussatoes two powerful 
and warlike nations, hath bine made at ye charge of ye Earle of Shaftsbury, &c, 
'The exception Is the name Yubaha which I 6 Ibid., p. 249. 
have discovered to be from Timucua; see p. 81. 7 Ibid., p. 258. 
sS.C. Bist. Soc. Colls., V, p. 186. » Ibid., p. 262. 
• Ibid., p. L91. * Ibid., p. 388. 
• Ibid., p. 104. '" Ibid., p. 446. 
s Ibid., p. 201. 
