swanton] EABL"S HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 297 
Probably those Yuchi did not remain long at La Salle's fort, but 
from fchia time oe the tribe appears on numerous maps under several 
variants of its Algonquian name — Tahogalegas, Taogaria, Tongeria, 
Taharea. Covens and Mortier place it on the south side of the 
Ohio just above its junction with the Wabash. Coxe gives it as one 
of four small tribes located on an island of the same name in Ten- 
nessee River. 1 Sauvole in a letter of 1701 mentions it, though the 
name lias Keen misprinted "Coongalees." 2 Coxe and most of the 
remaining authorities represent the tribe as located lower down the 
Tennessee than any others except the Chickasaw, who at that time 
had a settlement a few leagues above its mouth. In the fall of the 
year 1700 Father Gravier, of the Society of Jesus, descended the 
Mississippi to the newly established French post in Louisiana, and 
some distance below the mouth of the Ohio he encounted "a pirogue 
of Taogria." He has the following to say regarding this adventure: 
These belong to tin' loup nation, and carry en a considerable trade with the English. 
There Were only 6 men in it [the pirogue] with a woman and a child; they were coming 
from tin- Akansea. Be who seemed ih<> most notable among them could speak a Eew 
words "i [llinoia and spoke the Chaouanoua tongue. He made me sit in front of his 
traveling cabin, and offered me some sagamite to eat. He afterward told me, as news, 
thai Father de Limoges (whom he called Captain Pauiongha) had upset while in his 
canoe, and had lost everything; and that the Kappa akansea had supplied him with 
provisions and a canoe, to continue his voyage. I gave him a knife and half a box of 
vermilion; he made me a present of a very large piece of meat, the produce of his 
hunting. 3 
Gravier naturally classified these people with the Algonquians, 
since they were able to speak the language of their neighbors, the 
Shawnee, and had themselves an adopted Algonquian name. 
Five Canadians who reached South Carolina via the Tennessee 
River in the summer of 1701 found this town above a town of the 
Chickasaw and below that of the Tali. They estimated the number 
of their men at "about 200. " 4 It is probable that soon after this 
time the Yuchi moved higher up the Tennessee, for the next we hear 
of them they were living close to the Cherokee country. Through 
the South Carolina archives we learn that they had a town there 
named Chestowee or Chestowa. This is a Cherokee word which 
Mi >< nicy s | ).l Is Tsistu'yi, and interprets "Rabbit place." 5 May 14, 1712, 
the South Carolina board dealing with Indian trade was informed 
that a band of " Uche or Round Town people'' were on the point of 
abandoning their town, and this is probably the band intended.' 1 We 
learn from the same source that in 1714 this town was •"cut off" by 
1 French, Hist Colls. La., 1866, p. 230. & Nineteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 
* Ibid., 1851, p. 238. 538. 
»Je . Rel., Thwaites ed., pp. 65, 115. « Proc. Board Dealing with Indian Trade, MS., 
1 MS., lab. La. Hist. Soc; Correspondence Gene- p. 34. 
ra'.e, pp. 403-10-1. 
