296 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
into the interior, for we know that there were Yuchi in Tennessee 
until a comparatively late period, but among the Florida records is 
one which points to a new influx of Yuchi into the south shortly 
after the date of the great battle on the Tames. This will be con- 
sidered presently. 
Whether these latter Indians were Rickohockans or not, there were 
Rickohockans still in the north. In 1670, during his second expedi- 
tion into the province of Carolina, Lederer was informed by several 
Indians "that the nation of Rickohockans, who dwell not far to the 
westward of the Apalataean Mountains, are seated upon a land, as 
they term it, of great waves," from which Lederer infers that they 
meant the seashore. 1 It is more likely, as Mooney suggests, that 
they had reference to the mountains. 2 A tragedy of which Ricko- 
hockans were the victims was witnessed by Lederer at the town of 
Occaneechee. He says : 
The next day after my arrival at Akenatzy, a Riekohockan ambassadour, attended 
by five Indians, whose faces were coloured with auripigmentum (in which mineral 
these parts do much abound), was received and that night invited to a ball of their 
fashion; but in the height of their mirth and dancing, by a smoke contrived for that 
purpose, the room was suddenly darkened and, for what cause I know not, the Rieko- 
hockan and his retinue barbarously murthered. 3 
The next reference to the northern Yuchi is in a document printed 
in the Margry collection under the heading "Rivieres et Peuplades 
des Pays Decouverts," apparently written by La Salle shortly after 
his descent of the Mississippi in 1682. Unfortunately the first part 
is wanting. The fragment preserved begins by speaking of some 
people who were "neighbors of the Cisca and their allies as well as 
the Cicaca." 4 On the next page, in speaking of the upper Ohio 
region, he says: 
The Apalatchites, people of English Florida, are not far from some one of its most 
eastern branches, because they have war with the Tchatake [Cherokee] and the 
Cisca, one of whose villages they burned, aided by the English. The Ciscaa then 
abandoned their former villages, which were much further to the east than those 
from which they have come here." 5 
In a letter written to M. de La Barre somewhat later La Salle 
refers to the Illinois, Shawnee, and "Cisca" whom he had assembled 
about Fort St. Louis, near the present Utica, Illinois. 6 It is also 
possible that they are the Chaskpe mentioned in another place in 
connection with the Shawnee and " Oabano," 7 but still more probable 
that the Chaskpe (or Cheskape) were a part of the Shawnee, since 
they appear on early maps farther north than the Cliiska, near the 
Cumberland. 
lAlvord and Bidgood, First Expl. Trans-Alle- « Margry, Dec, u, p. 196. 
gheny Region, p. 155. '" Ibid., p. 197. 
a Nineteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Arner. Ethn.,p.lS3. « Ibid., p. 318. 
3 Alvord and Bidgood, op. cit., pp. 155-156. ; Ibid., p. 314. 
