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on with contempt at the equestrian exer- 

 cises with which the Spaniards strove to 

 impress him, and gave luiwilling ear to 

 their demands for burden carriers and 

 provisions, but when threatened by De 

 Soto replied tliat lie would send messen- 

 gers ahead to his principal town of Ma- 

 bila to order all to be prepared. Instead 

 of this, however, he instructed the mes- 

 sengers to call in all the fighting men of 

 his tribe to Mabila, a stockaded town 

 apparently on lower Alabama r., to at- 

 tack the Spaniards. On the arrival of 

 the advance guard of the Spaniards they 

 unloaded their baggage in the public 

 square, the Indians being apparently 

 friendly and receiving them with a dance 

 of welcome; but while this was going on 

 some of the soldiers noticed them con- 

 cealing bundles of bows and arrows un- 

 der branches of trees, and on entering one 

 of the houses the upper platforms near 

 the roof were found filled with armed 

 warriors. De Soto, on being warned, at 

 once made preparations for defense and 

 sent for the chief, who refused to come. 

 An attempt to seize him precipitated the 

 battle, in which the Spaniards were at 

 first driven out of the town, followed by 

 the Indians, who had freed the Indian 

 burden carriers of the Spaniards from 

 their chains and given them bows and 

 arrows to use against the white men. In 

 the open country outside the town the 

 Spaniards were able to use their cavalry, 

 and althougli the Indian's desperately 

 opposed their naked bodies, with bow 

 and arrow, to the swords, long lances, and 

 iron armor of the Spanish horsemen for 

 a whole day, the town was at last set on 

 fire and those who were not cut down 

 outside were driven back into the flames. 

 Men, women, and children fought, and 

 many deliberately committed suicide 

 when they saw that the day was lost. Of 

 about 580 Spaniards engaged some 20 

 were killed outright, and 150 wounded, 

 despite their horses and protective armor, 

 besideswhich they lostanumberof horses, 

 all their baggage, and some 200 pounds 

 of pearls. De Soto himself was wounded 

 and his nephew was among the killed. 

 The lowest estimate of the Indian loss 

 was 2,500 men, women, and children 

 killed. The fate of Tascalusa was never 

 known, but the body of his son was found 

 thrust through with a lance. 



The synonymy following refers to the 

 tribe or district of which Tascalusa was 

 chief. (j. M.) 



Tascalifa.— WytfJiet. Descrip. Ptolem. Augmen- 

 tum, map, 1597. Tascaluna. — Geiitl. of P^lvas (1557) 

 in French, Hi^it. Coll. La., ii,153,1850. Tascalusa.— 

 Biednia (1541), ibid., l.')3. Tasculuza. — Coxe, 

 Carolana, 21, 1711. Tastaluga. —Gentleman of 

 Elvas ill Span. Kxpl. of Southern U. S., 186, 1907. 

 Taszaluza. — Biedmain Smith, Colec. Doc. Fla., I, 

 53, 1857. Trascaluza.— Vnndera (1579), ibid., 19. 

 Tusca Loosa. — Woodward, Remini.s., 78, 1859. 

 Tuscaluca.— Shipp, De Soto and Fla., 377, 1881. 



Tasetsi {Tds^'tst). A former Cherokee 

 settlement on the extreme head of Hi- 

 wassee r., in Towns co., Ga. 

 Tase-tsi.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 531, 1900. 

 Tassetchie. — Doc. quoted by Moonev, ibid. 



Tasha. The Wolf clan of the Caddo.— 

 Mooney in 14th Eep. B. A. E., 1093, 1896. 



Tashkatze (Keresan: 'place of pot- 

 sherds'). A former pueblo, probably 

 Keresan, opposite Cochiti, n. central N. 

 Mex. According to Bandelier the village 

 seems to have consisted of 3 rectangular 

 houses and a round tower, and the Tano 

 now of Santo Domingo disclaim its former 

 occupancy by their people. 

 Tash-gatze.— Ritch, New Mexico, 166, 1885 (men- 

 tioned MS a Tewa or Tano pueblo). Tash-ka-tze, — 

 Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 179, 1892. 



Tashnahecha ('gopher'). A modern 

 Oglala Sioux band. 



Tacnahetca, — Dorse v (after Cleveland) in 15th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 220, 1897. Tasnaheca.— Ibid. 



Tashoshgon. A Koyuhkhotana village 

 of 30 people on Koyukuk r., Alaska. — 

 Zagoskin quoted by Petroff in 10th Census, 

 Alaska, 37, 1884. 



Tashuanta. A former village on Trinity 

 r., Cal., above the mouth of South fork. 

 Not identified. 



Tash-huan-ta. — Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 in, 139, 1853. Tash-wau-ta.— McKee in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 194, 1853. Tscha- 

 wan-ta.— Mever, Nach dem Sacramento, 282, 1855. 

 Wauch-ta.— Gibbs, MS., B. A. E., 1852. 



Tashunkeota ( 'many horses' ). A band 

 of the Sihasapa under Crow Feather 

 ( Kanghi wikava) , with 75 lodges in 1862. 

 Crow, Feather,— Sen. Ex. Doc. 90, 22d Cong., 1st 

 sess., 63, 1S32 (given as if the name of two bands). 

 Crow feather band. — Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 

 1850, 141, 1851. Tashunkee-o-ta.— Hayden, Ethnog. 

 and Philol. Mo. Val., 375, 1862. 



Tasikoyo ( Ta-sV-ho-yo, from tasim 

 'north,' koyo 'valley,' 'flat'). A former 

 Maidu village atTavlorsville, Plumas co., 

 Cal. 



Tasikoyo. — Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, map, 1905. To-si'-ko-yo.— Powers in Cont. 

 N. A. Ethnol., Ill, 282, 1877. Tu'sikweyo,— Curtin, 

 MS., B. A. E., 1885. 



Tasis. A winter village of the Nootka 

 at the head of Nootka sd., Brit. Col. 

 Tashees.— Jewitt, Narr., 101, 1815. Tasis.— Galiano, 

 Relacion, 132, 1802. 



Tasiusak ( ' similar to a lake'). A Dan- 

 ish trading post and Eskimo settlement 

 in w. Greenland, lat. 73° 20^— Meddelel- 

 ser om Gronland, viii, map, 1889. 

 Tassiussak. — Science, xi, 2.59 1888. Tesseusak, — 

 Kane, Arct. Explor., ll, 25, 1856. Tessieusak.— 

 Kane, ibid., i, 426, 1856. Tessi-Usak,— Ibid., ii, 

 map. Tessiusak. — Hayes, Arct. Boat Journ., map, 

 1854. 



Tasiusarsik. A village of the Angraag- 

 salingmiut tlskimo at the entrance of the 

 fjord of Angmagsalik, e. Greenland, lat. 

 65° 40.' Pop. 35 in 1884.— Meddelelser 

 om Gronland, i.v, 379, 1889. 



Taskigi ( Tdski'gi, abbreviated from 

 TaskigVyl or DaskigVyt). The name of 

 two former Cherokee towns: ( 1 ) on Little 

 Tennessee r., above the junction of the 

 Tellico, in Monroe co., Tenn.; (2) on the 

 N. bank of Tennessee r., just below Chat- 



