144 



THE MUSKOGEES OR CREEKS, AND SEMINOLES, 



20. inches. 



85. cubic inches. 



Horizontal periphery. 



Internal capacity, . 



Capacity of the anterior chamber. 



Capacity of the posterior chamber 



Capacity of the coronal region, . 



Facial angle, .... 



39.25 cubic inches. 

 45.75 cubic inches. 

 13.25 cubic inches. 

 71 degrees. 



THE MUSKOGEES OR CREEKS, AND SEMINOLES. 



The Muskogee or Creek confederacy is composed of several nations or 

 remnants of nations, among which the most prominent, at the present time, are 

 the Seminoles. I am indebted to the politeness of Dr. Forry, of the United 

 States Army, for some interesting particulars in reference to this coalition. 



MusKOGEEs. "Among the great nation of Creek Indians," says he, "the 

 principal and original tribe was the Muskogee, by whom the claim of having 

 always occupied the country recently in their possession is boldly asserted. Long 

 known as a powerful and restless confederacy, its sway extended over the present 

 limits of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. It consisted of a community of tribes, 

 which, having become reduced in numbers, incorporated themselves with the 

 ruling band. In progress of time these various clans or tribes became, in some 

 measure, a homogeneous people. 



" The Seminoles, who have a similar origin, consist chiefly of Muskogees. 

 The ancient possessors of the soil have become extinct, or at least have lost their 

 identity among the wars, and changes and confusion incident to our aborigines. 

 The collective appellation of Seminoles^ in its Muskogee acceptation, has a 

 signification expressive of the character of the Bedouin Arab. Detaching 

 themselves from the main body of the Creeks, they wandered wherever a greater 

 abundance of game or undisturbed possession of the soil might offer inducements. 

 The Yamassees, a powerful people of whom much is said in our early colonial 

 history, were, after long wars with their ancient enemies the Creeks, completely 

 broken up, and under the elder king Payne, the Seminoles reduced as tributaries 

 all refractory tribes. Thus from this nucleus of a people, there gradually arose 



