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inhabitants of the country- Mr. Gallatin* thinks the Uchees may have been the 

 dpalaches of De Soto : no tribe in Florida gave that miscreant more trouble ; they 

 disputed every inch of ground, and kept up an untiring w^arfare against the 

 Spaniards, until the latter had left their territory. The valor of the Spaniards, 

 says Garcilaso de la Vega, only redoubled the courage of the Indians.f 



PLATE XXVII. 

 UCHEE. 



I received this v^ell-characterised Indian head from my friend Dr. Z. Pitcher, 

 of the U. S. Army, v^ho accompanied it with the follovs^ing memorandum. "This 

 man spoke the English language, and played v^^ell upon the fife, from which 

 circumstance he was known as Bill the Fifer. He was attached to the U. S. 

 Army during the Creek war, and was regarded as a dauntless warrior. He died 

 at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, in 1833." 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter, 

 Parietal diameter, . 

 Frontal diameter, 

 Vertical diameter, . 

 Inter-mastoid arch, . 

 Inter-mastoid line, . 

 Occipito-frontal arch, 

 Horizontal periphery, 

 Internal capacity, 

 Facial angle, . 



6.8 inches. 



5.4 inches. 



4.3 inches. 



5.5 inches. 

 15. inches. 



4.4 inches. 

 14.3 inches. 

 20.1 inches. 

 81.5 cubic inches. 



75 degrees. 



On measuring nine heads of Indians of the Creek and Seminole nations, I 

 find the internal capacity unusually large, being no less than 94.75 cubic inches 

 in the largest, and 81.5 in the smallest skull; and the mean of the series is 87.5 

 cubic inches, which is a near approach to the Caucasian. The mean facial angle, 

 however, is but seventy-five degrees. 



* Archseolog. Amer. II, p. 95. 



t Conqiiete de la Florida^ I, p. 150, 



