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name Yuchi. On many maps we find "Ogeechee Old Town" laid 
down near the upper course of Ogeechee River and on the trading 
path from Augusta to Ocmulgee old fields and the Creek country. 
The way in which this appears indicates that the town had re- 
moved at the time of the Yamasee war, when it may have united with 
those Yuchi known as Westo, the larger body of Yuchi not migrating 
until some years later. Their fate is somewhat confused by the fol- 
lowing reference in Bartram: 
Mr. Egan politely rode with me over a great part of the island (Amelia). On Egmont 
estate are several very large Indian tumuli, which are called Ogeeehe mounts, so 
named from that nation of Indians who took shelter here, after being driven from 
their native settlements on the main near Ogeeehe River. Here they were con- 
stantly harrassed by the Carolinians and Creeks, and at length slain by their con- 
querors, and their bones entombed in these heaps of earth and shells. 1 
If there is any truth in this legend at all it is probable that the 
people referred to were Yamasee, or at least Indians of the province 
of Guale who had perhaps lived about the mouth of the Ogeechee, 
but not the Ogeechee tribe we have been considering. 
As noted above, a portion of the Yuchi went to Florida. They 
appear first in west Florida near the Mikasuki, 2 but later they moved 
across the peninsula and settled at Spring Garden, east of Dexters 
Lake, in Volusia County. Afterwards they were involved in the long 
Seminole war with the whites. All of them did not go in the first emi- 
grations, a special census taken in the year 1847 giving four Yuchi 
warriors among the Seminole left in the peninsula. 3 
THE NATCHEZ 
The Natchez having been made the subject of a special study by the 
writer, 4 no extended notice need be given here. Their earliest known 
home was on St. Catharines Creek, Mississippi, close to the present 
city which bears their name. After Louisiana was colonized by the 
French the latter established a post among them, which was in a very 
flourishing condition when, in the year 1729, it was suddenly cut off 
by a native uprising. Subsequently the French attacked these 
Indians, killed many, captured some, whom they sent to Santo 
Domingo as slaves, and forced the rest to abandon their old country 
and settle among the Chickasaw. When the French turned their 
attacks against the Chickasaw the Natchez found it necessary to 
move again, and some went to the Cherokee, some to the Catawba, 
i Bartram, Travels, pp. 63-64. 
2 See pp. 406, 409, 412. 
^Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, I, p. 522. 
< Indian Tribes of the Lower Miss. Valley and Adj. Coast of (he Gulf of Mex., Bull. 43, Bur. Amer. 
Ethn., pp. 45-257. 
