swan-ton] EARL? HISTORY OF Till: CREEK INDIANS 421 
people, whose history lacks the complication of that of most of the 
tribes so far considered. While it is capable of extended treat- 
ment, for our present purpose a few words will tell all about it 
thai wc need to know. 1 1 is probable that the Apafalaya chief and 
river spoken of by Kanjel and the Pafallaya province of Elvas, 1 refer to 
the Choctaw, or to sonic of them, since Adair informs us that "Long 
Hairs," (Pa n s-falaya) was a name given to the Choctaw by their 
neighbors. 3 We do not hear of the tribe again until late in the 
seventeenth century, when they occupied the region in the south- 
eastern part of the present State of Mississippi and the southwestern 
part of Alabama, which they held until their removal to Oklahoma 
in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century. A small portion of 
them have remained in their old country to the present day, while a 
few are to be found in Louisiana. 
POPULATION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN TRIBES 
The population ot an Indian tribe at any early period in its history 
can not be determined with exactness. In the case of the Creeks we 
have to consider not only the Muskogee or Creeks proper, but a num- 
ber of tribes afterwards permanently or temporarily incorporated 
with them, and the problem is proportionately complicated. For- 
tunately we arc helped out by a considerable number of censuses, 
some of which were taken with more than usual care. 
The Cusabo tribes were always small, even at the time of their 
first intercourse with the Spaniards and French, but we have no 
data regarding their population until the year 1715, just before the 
outbreak of the Yamasee war, when a careful estimate approaching 
an actual enumeration as closely as was possible at that time was 
made under the auspices of Governor Johnson of South Carolina- 
There were then two bands left belonging to this group. The " Corsa- 
boys" (i. e., the Cusabo proper) are credited with five villages, 95 
men, and a total population of 295, while the Itwans of Charleston En- 
t ranee had but one village, with 80 men, and a total population of 
240. :? The entire population of this group was therefore 535, and they 
are already described as " mixed with the English settlement." The 
Yamasee war depleted their numbers considerably. Most of them 
probably remained hi the same place, where they progressively de- 
clined and disappeared, though a few retired among the inland In- 
dians. The Coosa are not separately enumerated in this list, and it is 
uncertain whether they were omitted or are included among the 
Cusabo. According to Adah- some of them later joined the Catawba, 
but probably not all. 4 
' Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, i, p. 99; n, pp. 129-130. 
2 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 192. 
1 S. Car. MS. Docs, at Columbia; also Rivers, Chap, in Early Hist. S. Car., p. 94. 
* Adair, Hist. Am. Iiids., p. 225. 
