288 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
Gatschet gives Tahogalewi as the Delaware equivalent of Yuchi, 1 
and from early maps, where it appears in the forms Tahogale, Taho- 
garia, Taogria, Tongaria, Tohogalegas, etc., it is evident that it was 
applied by other Algonquian peoples also. It was used most per- 
sistently for a band of Yuchi on Tennessee River, but on the maps 
of Moll and some other cartographers the Tahogale are placed along 
Savannah River — a fact which serves to confirm the identification 
of the term (see pi. 3). 
Tohogalega was sometimes abbreviated to Hogologe or Hog 
Logee. A legend on a map in Jefferys's Atlas at a point on Savan- 
nah River several miles above Augusta reads: "Hughchees or 
Hogoleges Old Town deserted in 1715," 2 and an island in the river 
at this point is called "Huhgchee I." The form Hughchee is some- 
what unusual, but is confirmed as actually intended for Yuchi by 
numerous references to this island as "Uchee Island" in the Georgia 
Colonial Documents and elswehere, as well as the existence of a 
"Uchee Creek" which flows into the Savannah at this point. 
The earliest historical name for the Yuchi was Chiska or Chisca. 
I assert this confidently on the basis of information contained in 
very early Spanish documents, both published and unpublished, and 
on the very strongest of circumstantial evidence, although as yet 
no categorical statement of the identity has been found. The cir- 
cumstantial evidence is as follows: First, the term Chiska occurs in 
the same list, or on the same map, as the term Yuchi very rarely, and 
then when we know, or have good reason to believe, that more than 
one band of Yuchi were in the region covered. Secondly, the Span- 
iards, who use it principally, apply the term not to an obscure tribe 
but to a powerful people, and they mention in the same connection 
all of the leading tribes of the Southeast with the conspicuous excep- 
tion of the Yuchi. Thirdly, the term occurs persistently in three 
different areas, in the region of the Upper Tennessee, on the Savan- 
nah, 3 and near the Choctawhatchee, where we know on independent 
evidence that just so many Yuchi bands had settled. 
Some time ago I attempted a further identification of this tribe 
with a people settled upon the Savannah River at the time when 
South Carolina was colonized by the whites, and called by the latter 
Westo. 4 Prof. Verner W. Crane, who has made some important 
1 Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., I, p. 19. 
1 Jefferys's Am. Atlas, map 24. 
» There is but one application to Savannah River, it is true, but this is of considerable importance as 
tending to settle an otherwise puzzling problem. It is in the version of the Creek migration legend given 
by Hawkins in which his native informant says that after they had crossed what is now the Chattahoochee 
River the Creeks spread out east word to the Ocmulgee, Oconee, and Ogechee Rivers, and to "Chis-ke-tol- 
lo-fau-hatche" ("Chiska town river"). In the published version (Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 83) this is 
spelled " Chic-ko-tallo-fau-hat-che," but the original in the Library of Congress has it in the form just given. 
* See article "Westo" in Handbook of American Indians, Bull. 30, Bur. Amer. F.thn., part 2. I did 
not, however, make an elaborate exposition of my views at the time when this article was written. 
