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divides ii eelfe into three branches, amongst which dividing branches inhabit ye 
Cowatoe and Chorakae Indians w' b whom they are at continual warns. Forty miles 
distant from the towne northward they say lye ye head of ^Edistaw river being a 
great meer or lake. Two days before my departure arrived two Savana Indians living 
as ' hey Baid twenty days journey West Southwardly from them. There was none here 
y* underst I them bul by signes (hey iutreated freindship of ye Westoes Bhoweing 
y* ye Cussetaws, Chaesaws & Chiskers 1 were intended to come downe and fight ye 
Westoes. \ i which news they expeditiously repaired their pallisadoes, keeping watch 
all night. In the time of my abode here they gave me a young Indian boy taken from 
ye falls of y* River. The Savana Indians brought Spanish beeds & other trade as 
presents makeing signes y 1 they had comerce w th while people like unto mee, whom 
were cot good. These they civilly treated & dismissed before my departure ten of 
them prepared to accompany mee in my journey home. 2 
As pointed out by Professor Crane, " Hickauhaugau " is probably 
miscopied from " Rickauhaugau " and is a synonym for Rickohockan. 
In April, 1680, the governor of South Carolina had a confer- 
ence' with certain of the Westo chiefs, but later the Westo at- 
tacked some coast Indians, friendly to the colonists. War followed 
between them and the English, and, according to the colonial 
historians, it would have been disastrous to the new settlements 
had not a body of Shawnee fallen upon their enemies and driven them 
away from the Savannah. 3 This happened in 1681, and the Indians 
thus dispossessed appear to have settled on Ocmulgee River near the 
Coweta, then living in the neighborhood of the present Butts County, 
Georgia. At any rate Fray Francisco Gutierrez de Vera states, in a 
letter dated May 19, 1681, largely concerned with the Chatot mission, 
that the Coweta chief had arrived and reported that "many Chu- 
chumecas" had come to live at his town. 4 There was certainly a 
settlement of Westo near there, numbering 15 men at the outbreak of 
the Yamasee war. But from the note discovered by Professor 
Crane it is probable that their numbers had been augmented by other 
Yuchi from the north. 5 Individuals, as we have seen, strayed far 
enough westward to meet the French under La Salle. 8 
During or immediately after the Yamasee war they retired 
beyond the Chattahoochee, where they are located on maps of the 
eighteenth century for a long time afterwards. They appear to have 
lived close to the mouth of Little Uchee Creek, Russell County, 
Alabama. They probably united with the mam Yuchi town after 
its removal to Alabama, but we have no'direct evidence regarding 
the time or maimer in which this event took place. On the Purcell 
map, however, we find a town called Woristo, between Kasihta and 
1 This seems to be the original spelling of these names, which I have restored. The editor of the nar- 
rative gave them as Cussetaws, Checsaws, and Chiokees. 
1 S. C. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, pp. 459-461. 
» Hewat, Hist. Acct. S. C. and Ga., pp. 63-64. 
« Lowery, MSS. 
*Seep. 291. 
'See p. 296. 
