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the aame, perhaps the two distinguished by the French. 1 In 1797 
the trader was Patrick Donnally. 2 In the census rolls of 18.32 no 
such town appears, bul by thai time the main settlement seems to 
have adopted the name Tcatoksofka, "deep rock," i. e., one where 
there was a considerable fall of water, or "rock deep down," and this 
doo occur'. 1 After the removal u>( Oklahoma, Tcatoksofka was still the 
principal town. The old name Okfuskee was revived somewhat later 
by a chief named Fushatcutci (Little Fus-hatchee) who moved into 
the western part of the nation with pari of the Tcatoksofka people 
and gave the old name to his new settlement. From this circum- 
stance his people afterwards called him Tal-mutca's mi'ko, "New 
town chief." 
Another branch is called Abihkutci [Abi'kutcij. The name signi- 
fies "Little Abihka" and it might naturally be supposed that the 
people so designating themselves belonged to the Abihka Creeks. 
In fact, the principal Abihka town before the emigration was known 
as Abihkutci, whereas, after their removal, the diminutive ending 
was dropped and the name Abihka resumed. Two stories were 
given me of the way in which this name "Abihkutci" came to be 
used for an Okfuskee town. According to one, the town was founded 
by a few Abihka Indians, but it was later filled up with Okfuskee. 
According to the other, some Abihka joined the Okfuskee before the 
Civil War and afterwards left them. Then they formed a town 
apart and said "We will be called Little Abihkas." But since they 
had at one time lived with the Okfuskee the latter adopted the name 
Abihkutci for use among themselves. In any case the occurrence 
does not seem to have preceded the westward emigration of the Creeks, 
and the town did not have a wvy long separate existence. At 
the present day it has no square ground of its own. 
Another branch was known as Tukabahchee Tallahassee, probably 
because it occupied a place where the Tukabahchee had formerly 
lived. It appears in the lists of Swan and Hawkins. 4 and the latter 
states that in 1797 it received the name of Talmutcasi (New Town). 
We find it under this latter designation in the census list of 1832. 5 
It follows from its recent origin that it is distinct from the Talima- 
chusy 8 or Tailimuchase 7 of De Soto's time, though the names 
mean the same thing. After removal these peoplesettled in thesouth- 
western part of the nation and appear to have changed from the 
White to the Red side, being sometimes treated as a branch of Atasi. 
Their square ground was given up so long ago that very little is 
remembered regarding it. 
i Bartram, Travels, p. 461.' 
» Hawkins in Oa. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. 
» Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., lstsess.,iv, pp. 331-343. 
* Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262; Oa. Hist. Soc. Colls., n, p. 46. 
o Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong. 1st sess., iv, pp. 254-255. 
8 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, n, p. 113. 
' Ibid., i, p. 84. 
