bwamtoh] l.AIM.V HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 289 
historical discoveries in this region, to be mentioned presently, lias, 
however, taken strong exception to it. The resulting discussion 
between Professor Crane and myself has appeared in the American 
Anthropologist, which the reader may consult, 1 but it will not be 
profitable to cover the same ground again. I will merely incorpo- 
rate a short statement of my present views on the subject and the 
reasons which lead me still to adhere to my original opinion. 
My studies of southeastern tribes have clearly demonstrated that 
the Yuchi once inhabited some territory in the neighborhood of the 
southern Appalachian Mountains, from which, a large part of them 
moved during the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth 
centuries, invading the low countries to the south of them andsettling 
in several different places. Two or three such waves of migration 
can be made out with certainty, the first resulting in a settlement on 
Choctawhatchee River, in the western part of the present State of 
Florida; a second giving birth to the Yuchi settlement on Savananh 
River above the site of the present Augusta, later removed to the 
Chattahoochee River and then to the Tallapoosa; and a third, 
probably subsequent to the Yamasee war, which brought about a 
Yuchean colonization of the lower Savannah, and later became con- 
solidated into the well-known Yuchi town among the Lower Creeks. 
Furthermore, distinct names are often applied to these several bands, 
and sometimes they appear upon the same map under the distinct 
names. The first name appears in history as "Chisca," but later 
we iind them cabled, successively, Hogologe and Yuchi; the second 
are called both Hogologe and Yuchi; while the last appears as 
Yuchi almost invariably. On numerous maps we find the Hogologe 
(or Hogolege) and Yuchi entered as if they were distinct tribes, and 
Romans includes the two in his enumeration of the principal Lower 
Creek towns. 2 
So far as the Yuchi are concerned, then, the concurrent use of two 
or more distinct names does not prove that the people so called were 
unrelated. There can be no question that the Westo constituted 
for a long period a body of Indians distinct from those just men- 
tioned. They were not a part of the same tribal organization. The 
question is, Were the} 7 or were they not a Yuchean tribe ? Did they 
speak a Yuchean dialect? 
In the first place, attention should be called to the fact that in 
the immediate neighborhood of the southern Appalachians the 
Yuchi are the only people known to have moved southward in any 
considerable numbers in the early historic period. Again, after 
the Yamassee war and the later removal of those people to whom 
i Amer. Anthrop, n. s. vol. XX, pp. 331-337; vol. xxi, pp. 213-216, 463-465. 
« Plates 4 and 6; Romans, Con. Nat. Hist. E. and W. Fla., p. 280. 
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