290 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
the term Yuchi is commonly applied to the Chattahoochee River, 
the Yuchi and Westo towns were established a very few miles apart, 
where the two may readily have united. It is evident that a suffi- 
ciently large body of Westo Indians continued to exist in this neigh- 
borhood to have attracted the attention of those traders and explor- 
ers from whom accounts have come down to us if they were as dif- 
ferent from the Creeks generally as there is every reason to believe, 
unless they were confused with another people which did attract 
such attention. And it is a matter of record that practically all 
earlier writers upon the Lower Creeks make particular mention of 
the Yuchi and comment upon then- distinct language and peculiar 
customs. 
In his last communication Professor Crane cites a new piece of 
evidence which he thinks renders it necessary for us to reject the 
Yuchean connection of the Westo. This is the reference in Wood- 
ward's Westo Narrative 1 to a report brought by two Shawnee Indians 
to the effect that" ye Cussetaws, Checsaws, and Chiskers were intended 
to come downe and fight ye Westoes." If the Chiska and Westo 
were both Yuchi, Professor Crane argues that they would not be fight- 
ing each other. This, however, by no means follows. Many instances 
may be cited of tribes related by language at bitter enmity with 
one another and allied on each side with peoples having no connec- 
tion with them whatever. Besides, Woodward says regarding these 
Shawnee, " There was none here y* understood them, but by signes 
they intreated freindship of ye Westoes showeing," and so on as 
above. One may well hesitate to place entire confidence in infor- 
mation obtained in this manner. 
On the other hand, there is one bit of documentary evidence which 
tends to identify the Indians under discussion with the Chiska. This 
is given on page 296, and it will not be necessary to quote it at length, 
but the gist of it is that about 1682 La Salle encountered some 
Indians called "Cisca" and learned that the Indians of "English 
Florida" had burned one of their villages, "aided by the English," 
after which they had abandoned their easternmost villages and 
moved into the neighborhood of La Salle's fort. Now, English 
Florida must certainly refer to Carolina, not Virginia, and the Caro- 
lina settlers engaged in no war of consequence up to that time — 
certainly none resulting in the expulsion of a tribe — except that 
against the Westo, who had been driven out the year before. 
As opposed to the Yuchean theory, Professor Crane can only sug- 
gest a possible Iroquoian connection for these otherwise enigmatic 
Westo, and he has but two direct arguments to offer, both of the 
slenderest. One of these is the superficial resemblance between the 
» See pp. 306-307. 
