swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 273 
Not much can be added to this. There is a tradition among the 
modern Creeks that the Pakana separated from the Abihka, but 
it is evidently due to the proximity <>f the two peoples in ancient 
times and the number of intermarriages which took place between 
them. Again, an old Ililibi man told me that this town was founded 
by a Wiogufki Indian named Bakna, who held the first busk in his 
own yard, and whose name became attached to the new town. But 
Pakana was in existence long before Wiogufki. Wakokai, the 
mother town of Wiogufki, and the Pakana town were, however, 
located near each other, and to the close relations thence arising we 
may attribute the tradition. It is confusing to find the name Pakan 
tallahassee [Pakan talahasi] ("Pakana old town") used for these 
people in the very earliest mention of them, the De Crenay map 
of 1733. ' Since we hear shortly afterwards of a Pakana tribe — 
distinct from the Pakan tallahassee, which first settled near Fort 
Toulouse and later migrated to Louisiana — a suggestion is raised 
whether the Pakan tallahassee may not have been Muskogee or other 
Indians who had occupied a site abandoned by the Pakana proper. 
We have something similar in the case of the Tukabahchee talla- 
hassee, who were really an outsettlement of Okfuskee Indians. 2 
While such an interpretation is possible I think the real fact was 
that a single tribe split in two after Fort Toulouse was established, 
one part locating near it as a convenient market. At that time 
the original body may have received the name "old town Pakana" 
to distinguish them from the emigrants. It is indeed strange that 
on the De Crenay map we find "old town Pakana" (Pakanatalache), 
but no Pakana. 1 Still, this is not conclusive, for Fort Toulouse 
had probably been in existence 18 years when the map was prepared 
and the Pakana in its neighborhood may well have been overlooked. 
Both bodies appear in the lists of 1750, 1760, 3 and 1761, in which 
last year William Struthers and J. Morgan were the officially recog- 
nized traders. 4 In 1797 the trader was "John Proctor, a half-breed." 5 
The division known as Pakan tallahassee appears also in the list of 
1738 6 and those of Bartram, Swan, and Hawkins, and on the 
census rolls of 1832. 7 In 1768, or shortly before, it was burned 
by the Choctaw. 8 Hawkins derives the name "from E-puc- 
cun-nau, a may apple, and tal-lau-has-see, old town." The first 
word signifies properly "a peach" — Tcatabuya is May apple — but it 
» Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. 7 Bartram, Travels, p. 461; Schoolcraft, Ind. 
•Seep. 217. Tribes, iv, p. .578; v, p. 262; Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., 
•MSS., Ayer Lib.; Miss. Col. Arch., I, p. 95. in, p. 25; Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 2d sess., 
* Ga. Col. Docs., Vin, p. 523. IV, pp 285-286. 
* Hawkins in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. 8 Eng. Trans., MS., Lib. Cong. 
•MS., Ayer Lib. 
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