282 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
Hawkins mentions a village belonging to Tukabahchee called 
Wekuarthly [Wi lrili] (sweet water) from a little creek of that name 
near which it stood.' 
Tecumseh held most of his councils with the Creeks in this town. 
The name appears in the census of 1832 2 and often in later history. 
After the removal the Tukabahchee settled in the southeastern corner 
of their new territory, but later drifted westward, following the game, 
and at the present time their square ground is just north of Holden- 
villc. This is still the most populous town in the nation and has the 
largest square. 
Other Muskogee Towns and Villages 
Besides the recognized tribes or towns of major importance and 
such of their offshoots as can be identified, the literature of this 
region contains many names of towns or villages which can not be 
definitely connected with any of those given. In some cases it may 
be that we have to deal with ancient divisions in process of decline 
which were never connected with the rest, but in at least nine-tenths 
of the cases they are nothing more than temporary offshoots of the 
larger bodies. 
Opillako ("Big Swamp") seems to have been one of the most 
ancient and important of these. It appears as far back as 1733, on 
the De Crenay map. 3 It appears also in the census lists of 1750 
and 1760, 4 but not in that of 1761. The trader located there in 1797 
was Hendrik Dargin. 5 Swan spells the name "Pinclatchas," e and 
Hawkins has the following description: 
O-pil-thluc-co; from O-pil-lo-wau, a swamp; and thluc-co, big. It is situated on 
a creek of that name, which joins Puc-cun-tal-lau-has-see on the left side. It is 20 
miles from Coosau River; the land about this village is round, flat hills, thickets of 
hickory saplings, and on the hillsides and their tops, hickory grub and grapevines. 
The land bordering on the creek is rich, and here are their fields. 7 
The town does not appear in the census list of 1832, and seems to 
have vanished out of the memories of the living Indians. By his 
classification of Opillako, Hawkins clearly indicates that he con- 
sidered it a branch of one of the other towns. It is probably the 
Weypulco of the Mitchell map (pi. 6). 
Hawkins thus describes another branch village: 
Pin-e-hoo-te; from pin-e-wau [pinwa], a turkey, and ehoo-te [huti], house. It is on 
the right side of a fine little creek, a branch of E-pe-sau-gee. The land is stiff and 
i Ga. Hist. Soo. Colls., ix, p. 46. * MS., Ayer Lib.; Miss. Prov. Arch., I. p. 95. 
s Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess.,iv, pp, 243- » Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 170. 
252. 6 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
3 Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. » Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 50. 
