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The range is a good one, but cattle and horses require salt; they have some thriving 
peach trees, at several of the settlements. 
On Auhe-gee creek, called at its junction with the river, Hitchetee, there is one 
settlement which deserves a place here. It belongs to Mie-co thluc-co, called by the 
white people, the "Bird tail King [Fus hadji]. " The plantation is on the right side 
of the creek, on good land, in the neighborhood of pine forest; the creek is a fine flowing 
one, margined with reed ; the plantation is well fenced, and cultivated with the plough : 
this chief had been on a visit to New York, and seen much of the ways of white people, 
and the advantages of the plough over the slow and laborious hand hoe. Yet he had 
not firmness enough, till this year, to break through the old habits of the Indians. 
The agent paid him a visit this spring, 1799, with a plough completely fixed, and spent 
a day with him and showed him how to use it. He had previously, while the old 
man was in the woods, prevailed on the family to clear the fields for the plough. 
It has been used with effect, and much to the approbation of a numerous family, 
who have more than doubled their crop of corn and potatoes; and who begin to know 
how to turn their corn to account, by giving it to their hogs, cattle, and horses, and 
begin to be very attentive to them; he has some apple and peach trees, and grape 
vines, a present from the agent. 
The Cussetuhs have some cattle, horses, and hogs; but they prefer roving idly 
through the woods, and down on the frontiers, to attending to farming or stock raising. 1 
In notes taken two years earlier Hawkins thus speaks of another 
Kasihta village, located on Flint River: 
Salenojuh, 8 miles [below Aupiogee Creek]. Here was a compact town of Cusseta 
people, of 70 gunmen in 1787, and they removed the spring after Colonel Alexander 
killed 7 of their people near Shoulderbone. Their fields extended three miles above 
the town; they had a hothouse and square, water, fields well fenced; their situation 
fine for hogs and cattle. Just above the old fields there are two curves on each side of 
the river of 150 acres, rich, which have been cultivated. Just below the town the 
Sulenojuhnene ford, the lands level on the right bank. There is a small island to the 
right of the ford ; on the left a ridge of rocks. The lands on the left bank high and broken. 
Above the town there is a good ford, level, shallow, and not rocky; the land flat on 
both sides. 2 
Another description of Kasihta is given by Hodgson, an English 
missionary who passed through the Creek country in 1820. He says: 
It [Kasihta] 3 appeared to consist of about 100 houses, many of them elevated on 
poles from two to six feet high, and built of unhewn logs, with roofs of bark, and little 
patches of Indian corn before the doors. The women were hard at work, digging the 
ground, pounding Indian corn, or carrying heavy loads of water from the river; the 
men were either setting out to the woods with their guns or lying idle before the 
doors; and the children were amusing themselves in little groups. The whole scene 
reminded me strongly of some of the African towns described by Mungo Park. In the 
centre of the town we passed a large building, with a conical roof, supported by a cir- 
cular wall about three feet high; close to it was a quadrangular space, enclosed by 
four open buildings, with rows of benches rising above one another; the whole was 
appropriated, we were informed, to the Great Council of the town, who meet under 
shelter or in the open air, according to the weather. Near the spot was a high pole, 
like our may-poles, with a bird at the top, round which the Indians celebrate their 
Green-Corn Dance. The town or township of Cosito is said to be able to muster 700 
i Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, pp. 52-61. For some recent information regarding the site of Kasihta, see 
P. A. Brannon in Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. xi, p. 195. 
2 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., IX, p. 172. 
3 Hodgson spells the name Cosito. 
