260 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
the only man who does so in the Upper Creeks. He has three hundred cattle and 
thirty horses; he has, on the recommendation of the agent for Indian affairs, set up a 
manufactory of cotton cloth; he plants the green-seed cotton, it heing too cold for the 
blackseed. He has raised a quantity for market, but finds it more profitable to 
manufacture it; he has employed an active girl of Georgia, Rachael Spillard, who 
was in the Cherokee department, to superintend, and allows her two hundred dollars 
per annum. He employs eleven hands, red, white, and black, in spinning and 
weaving, and the other part of his family in raising and preparing the cotton for them. 
His wife, an Indian woman, spins, and is fond of it; and he has a little daughter who 
spins well. He employs the Indian women to gather in the cotton from the fields, 
and has expectations of prevailing on them to take an active part in spinning. 
llill-au-bee creek has a rocky bottom, covered in many places with moss. In the 
spring of the year the cattle of the villages crowd after it, and are fond of it. From 
thence they are collected together by their owners, to mark and brand the young 
ones. 
The climate is mild; the water seldom freezes; they have mast every other year, 
and peaches for the three last years. The range is a good one for stock. The owners 
of horses have a place called a stomp. They select a place of good food, cut down a 
tree or two, and make salt logs. Here the horses gather of themselves in the fly 
season. They have in the village a few thriving peach trees, and there is much 
gravelly land, which would be fine for them. 1 
A battle was fought near Hilibi town on November 18, 1813. 
Another village which separated from Hilibi was known as Ki- 
tcopataki, "a wooden mortar spread out," perhaps referring to an 
old rotten mortar. It may have originated after Hawkins's time, 
since it is first mentioned in the census rolls of 1832. 2 It is the only- 
branch clearly remembered at the present day. Of the older villages 
the most prominent was Oktahasasi, which appears to have main- 
tained a separate existence for a considerable period. It is not to 
be confused with a modern settlement known as Oktaha, "Sand 
town," composed of families which had fled from the other villages 
to avoid being involved in the Creek-American war. After their 
removal to Oklahoma the latter lived for a time upon the Verdigris 
River, but subsequently appear to have separated. Kitcopataki 
does not have a distinct busk ground at the present time, but that of 
Hilibi is (1912) kept up near Hanna, Oklahoma. 
The Eufaula 
The Eufaula tribe was an independent body as far back as history 
takes us. According to one of my informants they branched off 
from Kealedji, while another seemed to think that they originated 
from Hilibi. Practically no confidence can be placed in these opin- 
ions. Not even a plausible guess can be furnished by the living 
Indians regarding the origin of the name. It is an interesting com- 
mentary on the reliability of name interpretation that a story is told 
to account for the designation of this place, the point of which depends 
on its resemblance to the English "you fall." 
i Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, pp. 43-45. 
> Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 318-319. 
