bwaxtoh] EAKLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 271 
Green Peach war in Oklahoma, both of which are laid to its charge. 
At the present time it lias so far died away that but few real Wi- 
wohka Indians remain. Its later relations were closest with the 
Okchai Indians with whom the survivors now busk. 
The following ia Hawkins's description of this town as it was in 
1799: 
We-wo-cau; from we-wau, water, and wo-cau, barking or roaring, as the sound of 
water at high falls. It lies on a creek of the same name, which joins Puc-cun-tal-lau- 
has-see, on its left bank, sixteen miles below that town. We-wo-cau is fifteen miles 1 
above O-che-au-po-fau and four miles from ( Joosau, on the left side; the land is broken, 
oak and hickory, with coarse gravel; the settlements are spread out, on several small 
streams, for the advantage of ihe rich flats bordering on them and for their stock; they 
have cattle, horses, and hogs. Here commences the moss, in the beds of the creeks, 
which the cattle are very fund of; horses and cattle fatten very soon on it, with a little 
salt; it is of quick growth, found only in the rocky beds of the creeks and rivers north 
from this. 
The hills which surround the town are stony, and unfit for culture; the streams all 
have reed, and there are some fine licks near the town, where it is conjectured salt 
might be made. The land on the right side of the creeks is poor, pine, barren hills 
to the falls. The number of gun men is estimated at forty. 2 
The Kealedji 
According to native tradition this was a branch of Tukabahchee, 
but, if so, it must have separated at a very early date. Gatschet 
says that the name appears to refer to a warrior's headdress, con- 
taining the words ika, his head, and a verb meaning to kill (ilaidshas, 
I kill) . 3 This seems probable. At any rate the name evidently is not 
old enough to be worn down much by age and suggests a compara- 
tively recent origin for the group. This is also confirmed to a con- 
siderable extent by the absence of its name from the earliest docu- 
ments. Probably it is the "Gowalege" placed on a southern affluent 
of the Ocmulgee on the Moll map of 1720, 4 and perhaps the "Calalek" 
of the De Crenay map, 5 since in the French census of 1760 we find a 
town "Kalalekis" 6 which looks like a misprinted form of the name 
of this town. In the Spanish list of Creek towns made up in 1738 
the name is spelled "Caialeche" and in that of 1750 "Kalechy." 7 
It is certainly the "Coillegees near Oakchoy" of the census of 1761, 
the traders of which were Crook & Co. 8 In 1797 the traders were 
John O'Riley, an Irishman, and Townlay Bruce, of Maryland, 
formerly a clerk in the Indian Department, "removed for improper 
conduct." 9 It is in the list of Bartram 10 and in that of Swan, 11 and is 
thus described by Hawkins: 
i The Lib. Cong. MS. has " 17." ' MSS., Ayer Lib. 
1 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, pp. 40-41. » Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 523. 
» Also on plate 3. » Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. 
* Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., I, p. 133. i° Bartram, Travels, p. 462. 
' Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. » Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
* Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 95. 
