84 SIOUAN TRIBES OF THE EAST. [e?hnologt 



people of a dismembered tribe scattered among these otliers could have 

 fouud their way into that province. A body of the Chickasaw them- 

 selves at one time removed from the Mississippi and settled on the 

 Savannah in South Carolina, in tlie neighborhood of the present 

 Augusta; and according to Adair the South Carolina traders them- 

 selves instigated the rising of the Natchez, their message being con- 

 veyed to that tribe through the medium of the Chickasaw (Adair, 10). 

 It Avas but natural, therefore, that the defeated and extirpated Katchez 

 should turn to Carolina for support and shelter. 



While all the other tribes of Soutli Carolina hitherto noted or men- 

 tioned hereafter appear early in the history of that colony, the first 

 notice of the Notchee did not appear until 1734, four or live years after 

 the first Natchez war. In that year, it is related, a delegation of 26 

 "Natchee" Indians applied to the government of South Carolina for per- 

 mission to settle their tril)e on the Savannah (Rivers, anon., 1). By this 

 time the old Natcliez were probably already scattered among the Chick- 

 asaw and Creek and the Clierokee, those with the last-named tribe being 

 settled in western North Carolina. Permission was evidently given, 

 for in 1744 the "Notchees" are mentioned, in connection with thePedee, 

 as having killed some Catawba in a drunken quarrel, as a result 

 of which the Notchee and Pedee had fled down to the white settle- 

 ments to escape the vengeance of the Catawba, and the colonial gov- 

 ernment was compelled to interfere (Gregg, 9). In the preceding year 

 the "Nachee" are mentioned as one of the tribes incorporated with the 

 Catawba, but retaining their distinct dialect (Adair, 11). It is prob- 

 ablt! that the result of this quarrel was to separate the Notchee per- 

 manently from the Catawba and cause them to make their residence 

 thereafter lower down among the settlements, in the neighborliood of 

 the Pedee, as in 1751 the ''Notchees, " Pedee, and several others are 

 named as tribes living in South Carolina among the settlements, and 

 in Avhose behalf the colonial government effected a i)eace with the Iro 

 quois (N. Y.,22). A few years later they seem to have moved up again 

 and joined the Cherokee, for in 1755 they are twice mentioned as 

 having been concerned with that tribe in killing some Pedee and Wac- 

 camaw among the white settlements (Cregg, 10). This appears to be 

 the last reference to them in the South Carolina records. 



Etiwaw. — The tribe known as Etiwaw or Eutaw lived about Ash- 

 ley and Cooper rivers, in what is now Berkeley county, extending east- 

 ward about to the site of the present Monks Corner, where their hunting 

 grounds bordered the Sewee country. The Santee and Congaree 

 M^ere above them (Rivers, anon., 2). Their memory is preserved in the 

 name of Eutaw Springs or Eutawville. The tribal name is derived 

 from the Catawba word itawa, "pine tree" (Gatschet). They were one 

 of the small coast tribes collectively known as Cusabo, and were 

 probably identical with the tribe sometimes mentioned as "Ashley 

 River Indians." They were never prominent, and from their prox- 



