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large tribe, but had been wasted by alco- 

 hol and smallpox, which disease was 

 commonly fatal because the afflicted 

 plunged into cold water to alleviate the 

 fever. At Sewee bay he found a deserted 

 village, Avendaughbough, which may 

 have been one of their towns. Lawson 

 says that they undertook to send a fleet of 

 canoes to England in charge of most of 

 their able-bodied men, for the purpose 

 of trade; a storm swamped most of the 

 canoes, and the survivors were rescued by 

 an English ship and sold as slaves in the 

 West Indies. In 1715 there remained but 

 one village of 57 souls. The Yamasee war 

 of that year probably put an end to their 

 separate existence as a tribe, forcing the 

 survivors to join the Catawba. An anony- 

 mous old chronicle pul)lished by Rivers 

 (Hist. So. Car., 38, 1874) states that they 

 belonged to the Cusabo tribes. Consult 

 Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, Bull. 

 B. A. E., 1894. 



Seawees. — Doc. of 1719 in Rivers, Hist. So. Car., 93, 

 1874. Seewas.— Ibid., 38, 18.56. Sewee.— Purcell, 

 Map of Va., 1795. Sewees.— Lawson (1701), Hist. 

 Car., 24, 1860. Sewoe.— Moll, Map Car. (1720), no. 

 98 in Am. maps, i (misprint). 



Sewellel. One of the names of a species 

 of rodent {Haplodon riifufi) peculiar to a 

 limited area in the Oregon-British Colum- 

 bia region and regarded by some authori- 

 ties as a sort of connecting link between 

 the beaver and the squirrel. Lewis and 

 Clark (Trav., iii, 39, 1817) state that 

 setvellel is the name given by the natives. 

 To the trappers and hunters this animal 

 was known also as boomer, mountain 

 beaver, etc. Another native name sub- 

 sequently used by the whites is shoui'l 

 (q. v.). According to Gibbs (Pac. R. R. 

 Rep., XII, pt. 2, 126, 1860) sewellel is a 

 corruption otslieimUdl, the Chinook name 

 for a robe made of the skins of these ani- 

 mals, the animal itself being called og- 

 woollal. (a. f. c. ) 



Sewickley. A former village of the 

 Shawnee, called by the early Indian 

 traders Asswikales (see Hathawekela) , 

 later shortened to Swickleys, situated on 

 the N. side of the Allegheny r., about 12 

 m. above Pittsburg, near the site of 

 Springdale, Allegheny co., Pa. In the 

 notes given in the table of distances by 

 James Le Tort before the Pennsylvania 

 Council (1731), he speaks of 50 families 

 of these Asswikales "lately from Caro- 

 lina to Potowmack, & from thence thither; 

 making lOOmen; Aqueloma, their Chief" 

 (Arch. Pa., i, 302, 1852; see also letter of 

 Davenport, ibid., 299). These Shawnee, 

 a short time before, had settled on the 

 w. branches of the Susquehanna, whence 

 they moved to the Conemaugh, then 

 down the Kiskiminetas to the Allegheny 

 At the time the village on this river was 

 visited by LeTort, various French traders 

 had been among the Indians, among 



them "Cavalier," who had taken a num- 

 ber of the Shawnee to Montreal, where 

 they had been kindly treated and given 

 presents. The next year, about 1730, 

 several of the Shawnee chiefs visited the 

 French governor, who sent back to the 

 Allegheny five blacksmiths to mend the 

 guns and hatchets of the Indians in the 

 settlement. This led to a request that 

 the English authorities send a blacksmith 

 to the Allegheny to rendersimilar service. 

 A number of these Shawnee were located 

 along the streams in Westmoreland co., 

 hence the name for Sewickley cr., Sewick- 

 ley settlement, etc The town on the Al- 

 legheny is noted on Bonnecamp's map of 

 1 749 as ' ' Ancien Vil lage des Chaouanons' ' , 

 through which place Celeron de Bien- 

 ville passed in that year. After the 

 English occupancy of the Ohio in 1758, 

 the village was occupied by a few Mingo 

 and friendly Delawares. After Pontiac's 

 conspiracy in 1763 all the Indian villages 

 near Ft Pitt were abandoned, although 

 a few Indians lived at this locality at a 

 later date. (g. p. d.) 



Sewickly's old T. — Evans map, 1755. Sewicklys 

 Old Town,— Scull map, 1770; Pownall map, 1776. 

 Village des Chaouanons. — Bonnecampmap, 1749. 



Seyupa. A former pueblo of the Pecos 

 tribe, more commonly known as El Gu- 

 sano (Span. : 'The Worm' ), situated a few 

 miles s. e. of Pecos, at the present site 

 of the village of Fulton, San Miguel co., 

 N. Mex. In the opinion of Bandelier 

 it is not unlikely that this pueblo was 

 occupied, together with Kuuanguala 

 (q. v.), at the time of Espejo's visit in 

 1583; and, indeed, if the pueblo of Seipa 

 mentioned by Castafieda of Coronado's 

 expedition in 1540 is identical, it was 

 occupied when New Mexico was first 

 visited by the Spaniards. (f. w. h. ) 



El Gusano. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iir, 

 128, 1.S90. Seipa.— Castafieda (1541) in Ternaux- 

 Compans, Voy., ix, 182, 1S38 (identical?). Se-yu- 

 pa.— Bandelier, op. cit., iv, 128, 1892. Se-yu Pae- 

 la.— Ibid., Ill, 128, 1890. Se-yu-pa-lo.— Ibid., iv, 

 128, 1892. 



Sfagaiiuk. A Kaialigmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage between Dall lake and Etolin str., 

 Alaska. 



Sfaganugamute.— Petroff, Alaska, map, 1880. Sfo- 

 ganugamiut. — Nelson quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 1902. Sfugunugumut.— Nelson in 18th Rep. 

 B. A. E., map, 1899. 



Sganatees ('the very long town'). A 

 former village, probably of the Tusca- 

 rora, situated in 1752 on the "main road 

 to Onondaga," about 10 miles w. of "Old 

 Oneida," N. Y. (.i. n. b. h.) 



Ganatisgowa. — De Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, 

 55, 1S70 ( = 'the great long town'). Sganatees.— 

 Ibid., 712. 



Sgilgi (.SV/i^/r/J', 'plenty of scoters'). A 

 Haida town of the Saki-kegawai family, 

 formerly in an inlet on the s. w. coast of 

 Moresby id., Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. 

 Col. It was the most important Ninstints 

 town on the w. coast, and its chief became 



