86 SIOUAN TRIBES OF THE EAST. [e?hnolog? 



in 1562 and with tlie Cogao of La Vaiidera's Spanish narrative of 1569. 

 They are noted as hostile to the English in 1671 (Rivers, anon., 4). In 

 1675 the chiefs of " great and lesser Casor " sold a tract lying on Kiawah, 

 Stono, and Edisto rivers, and in 1684 there is a record of another sale 

 of land by the chief of " Kissah " (Mills, 6). They are mentioned as 

 " Kussoes " in the Sonth Carolina trade regulations in 1707, and appear 

 last under the name of " Coosah " as one of the tribes incorporated 

 with the Catawba, but still preserving a distinct dialect in 1743 (Adair, 

 12). The name is identical with that of a leading division of the Creek, 

 but this fact, or that of their iinal union with the Catawba, j)roves 

 nothing as to their linguistic affinities. It is probable, however, that, 

 like their neighbors, the Yamasi, they were of Muskhogean stock. 

 If not, they may have been Uchean rather than cognate with the 

 Catawba. 



Cusaho. — The coast tribes between Ashley river and the Savannah 

 were known collectively as Cusabo. The name was elastic in its 

 application, and included the Etiwaw, Westo, Stono, Edisto, and 

 Cusso, as well as smaller local bands immediately along the coast, 

 among which were the Kiawaw, on Kiawah island; Combahee, on 

 Combahee river; Wapoo, on Wapoo river; Wimbee (location not def- 

 initely ascertained), and Saint Helena Indians or Santa Elena of the old 

 Spanish writers, on the island of that name. In its restricted sense 

 the term was applied to these smaller bands which had less compact 

 organization than those first named. Their territory is the Chicora of 

 D' Ay lion and other early Spanish adventurers. This term Gatschet 

 is disj)Osed to derive from the Catawba Yuchi-Mre, " Yuchi are there," 

 or "Yuchi over there," which interpretation, if correct, would indicate 

 that they were of Uchean stock. There is reason to believe that these 

 early people of Chicora were practically exterminated by the raids of 

 Spanish slavers or by later JMniskliogean invaders, and that the coast 

 tribes found in this region i i. the eighteenth century were of Musk- 

 hogean origin, allied to the I'amasi and Creek. 



In January, 1715, the " Cori^>aboys," by which, we are to understand 

 the smaller local coast bands, were reported to have five villages with 

 295 souls. A few months later came the Yamasi war, the most terri- 

 ble in the history of colonial South Carolina, resulting before the end 

 of the year in the expulsion and ''utter extirpation" of the Yamasi 

 and several other tribes, including the Cusabo (Rivers, 4). 



