254 BUREAU OF AMETUCAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
were perhaps late in forming, since they do not appear separately 
listed before the census of 1832. ' There is a place called "Conchar- 
dee" a few miles northwest of Talladega, in the county of the same 
name, Alabama. After their removal the Kan-tcati busk ground 
was soon given up, but that of Talladega has persisted down to the 
present day (1912). 
Gatschct enumerates two other Abihka towns, Tcahki lako or Big 
Shoal and Kayomalgi. 2 The former was on Choccolocco ("Big 
Shoal") Creek in Calhoun or Talladega County, Ala., and is to be 
distinguished carefully from the Okfuskee town so called. 3 There 
is some .reason for thinking that Kayomalgi may have been settled 
by Shawnee, 4 though in 1772 a Chickasaw settlement was made on 
the creek which bore this name. 6 "The Lun-ham-ga Town in the 
Abecas" is mentioned by Tobias Fitch in 1725. 6 
On the Lamhatty map is a town called "Apeicah," located 
apparently on the east bank of the lower Chattahoochee. 7 This 
may perhaps be intended for Abihka, but if so it is badly misplaced. 
We have no knowledge of any portion of the Abihka people living 
so far to the south and east. 
The Holiwahali 
The first of all red or war towns among the Upper Creeks to 
appear in history is Liwahali, or, in the ancient form of the word, 
Holiwahali, a name which signifies "to share out or divide war" 
Qioli, war, awahali, to divide out). The explanation of this is given 
below. At the present time some Creeks say that Holiwahali, Atasi, 
and Kealedji separated from Tukabahchee in the order given, but 
this story rather typifies the terms of friendship between them than 
explains their real origin, though there may be more substantial 
grounds for the belief in a common origin in the cases of the two 
latter. Holiwahali, however, goes back to a remote historical period, 
for there can be little doubt that it is the Ulibahali of Ranjel 8 and the 
Ullibahali of Elvas. 9 This word might be given an interpretation in 
the Alabama language, but it is unlikely that any Alabama other than 
the Tawasa were on Tallapoosa River in De Soto 's time. At any rate 
the town described by Ranjel and Elvas was on a river and in much the 
same position as that in which we later find Holiwahali. It was fenced 
about with palisades, erected and loopholed in the usual Indian manner. 
» Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., IV, pp. 304-307. 
« Ala. Hist. Soc, Misc. Colls., I, p. 391. 
3 See p. 219. 
* See p. 319. 
6 Taitt in Mereness, Trav. in Amer. Col., pp. 531-532. 
BIbid., p. 189. 
» Amor. Anthrop., n. s. vol. X, p. 569. 
8 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, ii, p. 113. 
» Ibid., I, p. 84. 
