swanton] I.AKIA IIISTnKY OF THE OBEBK INDIANS 257 
the latter a Jew. 1 Bartram calls it "duale," Swan " dewauleys," 2 
while in the census enumeration of L832 it appears as "Gewalla." 3 
Hawkins describes it as follows: 
Bo-ith-le-wau-le, from Efo-ith-le, war, and wau-le, to share out <<r divide. This 
town had, formerly, the right to declare war;' tin- declaration was sent first to Took- 
au-bat-che, and thence throughout the aation, and they appointed the rendezvous 
of the warriors. It ieon therighl bank of the Tallapoosa, five miles below Aut-tos-see. 
In descending the river on the Left side from Aut-tos-see, is two miles across Ke-bi- 
hat che; thence one mile and a half O-fuck-she, and enter the fields of the town; the 
fields extend down the river for one and one-half miles; the town is on the right bank, 
on a narrow strip of good land: and back of it, under high red cliffs, are cypress ponds. 
It borders west on Autoshatche twenty-five feet wide. 
These people have some cattle, and a few hogs and horses; they have some settle- 
ments up O-fuck-Bhe; the increase of property among them, and the inconvenience 
attendant on their situation, their settlement being on the right side of the river, 
and their fields and stock on the left, brought the well-disposed to listen with atten- 
tion to the plan of civilization, and to comment freely on their bad management. 
The town divided against itself; the idlers and the ill-disposed remained in the town, 
and the "tliers moved over the river and fenced their fields. On this side the land is 
good and level, and the range out from the river good to the sources of O-fuc-she. 
On the other side, the high broken land comes close to the river. It is broken pine 
barren, back of that. The situation of the town is low and unhealthy; and this 
remark applies to all the towns on Tallapoosa, below the falls. 
O-fuc-she has its source near Ko-e-ne-cuh, thirty miles from the river, and runs 
north. It has eight or nine forks, and the land is good on all of them. The growth 
is oak, hickory, poplar, cherry, persimmon, with cane brakes on the flats and hills. It 
is a delightful range for stock, and was preserved by the Indians for bears and called 
the beloved bear-ground. Every town had a reserve of this sort exclusively; but 
as the cattle increase and the bears decrease, they are hunted in common. This 
creek is sixty ' feet wide, has steep banks, and is difficult to cross, when the waters 
are high. 
Kebihatche has its source to the east, and is parallel with Ca-le-be-hat-che; the 
margins of the creek have rich Hats bordering pine forest or post oak hills. 6 
If our identification of Ulibahali with this town is correct, the 
name which it bears would indicate that the Creek confederacy was 
in existence as far back as the period of De Soto. The fission in the 
town described by Hawkins was evidently that which resulted in the 
formation of Laplako, since it is only after this time — namely, in the 
census list of 1832 7 — that we find Laplako mentioned. According 
to the story now related a quarrel broke out among the Holiwahali 
while they were drinking, and afterwards part of them moved away 
to a creek where a kind of cane grew called lava. From this they 
received their present name, a contraction of lawa lako, big lawa. 
Laplako comprised the more thrifty and energetic part of the popu- 
i Ga. Mist. Soe. Colls., i\, p. 168. 
2 Bartram, Travels, p. 461; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 202. 
« Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 315-318. 
1 This fact is still remembered by some of the older Crock Indians. 
» The Lib. Cong. MS. has "20." 
• Ga. Mist. Soc. Colls., in, pp. 32-33. 
• Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 26.8-270. 
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