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('anos is a country through which Hows one of the two powerful rivers; it contains 
that and many small rivulets; it has great meadows and very good ones, and here and 
from here on, the maize is abundant; the grapes are plentiful, big, and very good; 
there are also bad ones, thick skinned and small, in fact, there are very many varie- 
ties. It is a country in which a big town can be settled. To Santa Elena there are 
50 leagues and to the sea about twenty, and it is possible to reach it by way of the big 
river crossing the country and [to go] much further inland by the same river; and 
equally could one go by the other river which passes near Guiomaez. 1 
The first of these rivers can have been only the Savannah; the 
second probably the Coosawhatchie, the Salkehatchie, or Briar 
Creek. The name Canosi is perhaps perpetuated in Cannouchee 
River, a branch of the Ogeechee, upon which the Kasihta may once 
have dwelt. 
In 1 628 Pedro de Torres was sent inland by the governor of Florida, 
Luis de Rojas y Borjas. He went as far as "Cafatachiqui" (or 
"Cosatachiqui"), "more than two hundred leagues inland," and 
the governor states in his letter to the king describing this expedi- 
tion that the men in his party were the first Spaniards to visit it 
since De Soto's time. This last statement is, of course, an error. 
The governor says little more except that all the chiefs in the country 
were under the chief of Cofitachequi, and the rivers there abounded 
in pearls, which the natives appear to have gathered in a manner 
described by Garcilasso. 2 
By the time the English came to South Carolina it is evident that 
the Kasihta had changed their location. This is apparent both from 
Henry Woodward's Westo narrative and from what we learn of his 
visit to them. The Westo were then on Savannah River; the 
Kasihta, or "Chufytachyqj" as he calls them, were 14 days' travel 
west by north "after ye Indian manner of marchinge." 3 The loca- 
tion is uncertain, but must have been near the upper Savannah. 
It was certainly farther away than that of the Westo and more to 
the north. In Elbert County, Ga. , on Broad River, a few miles south 
of Oglesby, is an old village site which would answer very well to 
the probable location of the tribe at this period. At any rate, from 
1 670 until some time before 1 686 the Kasihta were in northern Georgia, 
near Broad River, perhaps ranging across to the Tennessee. Maps 
of the period locate the Kasihta and Coweta in this area, about the 
heads of the Chattahoochee and Coosa. South Carolina documents 
place this tribe on Ocheese Creek in 1702, Ocheese Creek being an old 
name for the upper part of the Ocmulgee, 4 and it seems probable from 
an examination of the Spanish documents that they were settled 
there as early as 1680-1685. From the context of a letter written 
May 19, 1686, by Antonio Matheos, lieutenant of Apalachee, to 
1 Ruidiaz, La Florida, n, p. 482. * S. C. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, p. 186. 
2 Garcilasso in Shipp, De Soto and Fla., pp. * Jour, of the Commons House of Assembly, MS. 
371-373. 
