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iuiity to the settlements soon dwindled into insignificance. In Janu- 

 ary, 171."), just before the Yamasi war, they Lad a single village with a 

 popnlatiou of 240 souls (Rivers, 3). They were probably much reduced 

 by that war, and nothing more is heard of them until 1751, when they 

 are mentioned as one of the small tribes for whom the Soutii Carolina 

 government made peace with the Iroquois (IST. Y., 23). 



Westo and Sto)io. — Lederer and other early observers refer to two 

 tribes living between Ashley and Edisto rivers, known as the Westo 

 and Stono, the latter probably occupying the coast along Stono river 

 and inlet. From the nature of the references it is probable that both 

 tribes extended some distance into the interior. They seem generally 

 to have acted together, and were steadily hostile to the early South 

 Carolina settlers. They were among the tribes collectively known as 

 Cusabo. The Westo seem to be identical with the Hostaqua men- 

 tioned by Laudonniere about 1564, and Avith the Oustack of Lederer, 

 described by him as being brave fighters, at war in 1(370 with the 

 Ushery (Catawba), who were separated from them by what he calls 

 a lake, probably an overflow of the Santee (Lederer, 13). 



The Westo and Stono made war on the settlements about Charles- 

 ton in 1G69-'71, and again in 1074, when a force of volunteers had to 

 be raised against them (Gatschet, Legend, 2). In 1G80 they became 

 involved in a war with the Savannah (Shawano), by whom they were 

 totally defeated and driven out of the country (Gallatin, 1). What 

 became of them is unknown, but they may have gone southward into 

 the Spanish territory of Florida, as did the Yamasi thirty-five years 

 later. 



Edisto. — A tribe appears to have occupied the country along the 

 lower part of Edisto river, and their name is preserved in that of the 

 river 5 but as the coast region was occupied in later times by small 

 bauds having local rather than tribal names it is impossible to locate 

 them definitely. Their country is called the province of Crista by the 

 early Spanish writers, and Audusta by Laudonniere. Edisto is the later 

 English form. The Huguenots of Eibault's colony received a friendly 

 welcome from them in 1562, and the Si^aniards for some time had a mis- 

 sion among them. They are mentioned in connection with the Stono, 

 Westo, and Savannah as still living in the same region when the 

 English settlements were established in South Carolina in 1670. They 

 disappear from history soon after, and may have been driven out of 

 the country together with the Westo and Stono in the war waged 

 against the last-named tribes by the Savannah in 1680. 



Coosa. — Another tribe lived abcmt the mouth of the Edisto or Com- 

 bahee whose name, Cusso or Coosaw, is preserved in Coosaw and Coo- 

 sawhatchee, streams entering the sea on either side of Saint Helena 

 island. According to Rivers they lived northeast of Combahee river, 

 which separated them from the Combahee tribe (Rivers, anon., 3). 

 They appear to be identical with the Couexi of the Huguenot colonists 



