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strips of flat land arc narrow; the broken is gravelly, with oak, hickory and pine, not 
very inviting. Four of these villages have valuable stocks of cattle. McCartney 
has one hundred; E-cun-cha-te E-maut-lau, one hundred; Tote-cuh Haujo, one 
hundred, and Took[aubatche] Micco, two hundred. 
7th. Sooc-he-ah; from Sooc-cau, a hog, and he-ah, here,' called by the traders, hog 
range. It is situated on the right bank of Tallapoosa, twelve miles above Oc-fus-kee. 
It is a small settlement, the land is very broken, the flats onthe river are narrow, the 
river broad and shoally. These settlers have moved, and joined Im-mook-fau, with 
a few exceptions.-' 
To these must be added: 
Oc-fus-coo-che (little* >c-fus-kee is a pari of the small village, four miles above Xew- 
yau-cau. Some of these people lived at Oc-fus-kee nene, on the ( hat -to-ho-che, from 
whence they were driven by an enterprising volunteer party from Georgia, the 27th 
September, 1793. 3 
During the Green Peach war many Okfuskee settled in the edge of 
the Cherokee Nation, near Braggs, Oklahoma, and afterwards some 
of them remained there along with a number of the Okchai Indians. 
The Abihka 
The Abihka constituted one of the most ancient divisions of the 
true Muskogee, appearingin the oldest migration legends, and are reck- 
oned one of the four "foundation towns" of the confederacy. In 
ceremonial speeches they were called Abihka-nagi, though what 
nagi signifies no one at the present time knows. They were also called 
"the door shutters" because they guarded the northern border of 
the confederacy against attack. Hawkins says that among the 
oldest chiefs the name of this tribe was sometimes extended to the 
entire Creek Nation. 4 Du Pratz, who, like Iberville, distinguishes 
most of the true Muskogee as Conchacs, says that he believed the 
terms Abihka and Conchac applied to one people. 5 The relations of 
this tribe were naturally most intimate with the Coosa Indians. 
Hamilton quotes a Spanish manuscript of 1806 in which it is said 
that the Abihka and Coosa were as one pueblo divided into two by 
swift rivers. 6 Later they adopted a large portion of the refugee 
Natchez, who ultimately became completely absorbed. Stiggins, 
himself a Natchez, has the following to say regarding the Abihka and 
the people of their adoption: 
The Au bih ka tribe reside indiscriminately in the Talladega valley with the Natche 
tribe, who they admitted to locate and assimilate with their tribe as one people indi- 
visible a little more than a century ago. They at this day only pretend to know and 
' Hawkins seems to have gotten hold of a mongrel expression, half Creek, half English. The proper 
Creek designation was Suka-ispoga. 
2 C,a. Hist. Soc. Colls., ni, pp. 45-48; ix, p. 170. 
•Ibid., p. 51. 
* Ibid., p. 52. 
6 Du Pratz, La Louisianc, n, p. 208. 
• Hamilton, Col. Mobile, 1910, p. 572. 
