292 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
cially yc Rickohogo's or Westos, a people which formerly when well 
used made an attempt to Destroy us. . . ." And Professor Crane 
well adds: "The ' Hickauhaugau ' of Woodward's relation was, then, 
simply a variant of 'Rickohogo' or Rickahockan." 1 This identifica- 
tion appears to me satisfactory and very illuminating. It is to be ob- 
served, too, that the mountain habitat of these Rickohockans falls 
very near to, if it is not identical with, the habitat of the northern 
band of Chiska to be described presently. As the name Ricko- 
hockan seems, fide Hewitt, to be an Algonquian term signifying "cave- 
landers," we must not lose sight of the possibility that it may have 
been applied to more than one people, and that they were identical, 
at least in part, with the Westo of South Carolina history. Singu- 
larly enough Professor Crane, even in this identification, is confronted 
by the same difficulty which we note so frequently in dealing with 
the Yuchi — the application of synonymous terms to different bands. 
Thus Lederer meets in one town Rickohockans whose home was " not 
far westward of the Apalataean mountains" and later hears of the 
"Oustack," a fierce tribe at war with the Catawba. 2 These Oustack 
must certainly have been the Westo then living in the same region 
and known by a name almost identical, allowing for an ending which 
we may reasonably attribute to Lederer's Algonquian interpreter. 
Still one more term may prove to have been applied to these peo- 
ple of many names, the term Tamahita. A full statement of the ar- 
guments in this case has already been given. 3 Let us now take up the 
history of these various Yuchi, or supposedly Yuchi, bands. 
As I have already explained, there is no evidence that the Yuchi 
were on Savannah River in De Soto's time. In fact, there is no 
proof that he himself met them at all. When he was passing down 
the Tennessee River, however, he heard of them under the name 
"Chisca," the " province" so called lying across the mountains to the 
north. They were evidently in the rough country in the eastern part 
of the present State of Tennessee, 4 and De Soto sent two soldiers to 
visit them. The Fidalgo of Elvas says: 
In three days [after the arrival of the expedition at Coste] they that went to Chisca got 
back, and related that they had been taken through a country so scant of maize, and 
with such high mountains, that it was impossible the army should march in that 
direction; and finding the distance was becoming long, and that they should be back 
late, upon consultation they agreed to return, coming from a poor little town where 
there was nothing of value, bringing a cow-hide as delicate as a calfskin the people 
had given them, the hair being like the soft wool on the cross of the merino with the 
common sheep. 5 
1 Crane, op. cit., p. 33C>. 
2 Lederer, in Alvord and Bidgood, First Exp. Trans-Allegheny Region, pp. 13.5-171. 
3 Pp. 188-191. 
4 Mr. William E. Myer, who for years has made a careful study of the archeology of Temiessee, believes 
that these Chiska were at the "stone fort" near Manchester, the county seat of Coffee County, Tennessee. 
' Bourne, Narr, of De Soto, I, pp. 79-80. 
