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have been numerous, constituted the Oka Lusa province of Ran j el, 

 but if that had been the case the Spaniards would probably have 

 heard of them before, while they were ascending the river Tombigbee. 

 There is a Black Water Creek in Walker and Winston Counties, Ala., 

 which corresponds very closely in position with the creek mentioned 

 by Chekilli and might also have been Ranjel's province, if the name 

 can be traced to an Indian original. There do not, however, appear 

 to be any archeological remains of consequence in this region. But 

 whether we are able to locate this creek definitely or not, it seems 

 to me significant that it is placed in the direction of the Chickasaw 

 country and the name appears to be in the Chickasaw language. 



From this point on we have no difficulty in following the supposed 

 course of the Creek migration. The position of "Coosaw" has been 

 given. After living with the Coosa 4 years, the Creeks continued on 

 east to "Nawphawpe" Creek, the present Naufawpi. They then 

 reached Wliooping Creek, a small northern affluent of Big Uchee. 

 "Owatunka river" is the Wetumpka of today. The name "Aphoosa 

 pheeskaw," which we encounter next, has been lost, but the big river 

 that they shortly reached and followed can only have been the Chatta- 

 hoochee, and the falls are the falls at Columbus, though they are 

 indeed higher up than the story appears to indicate. Here the Mus- 

 kogee formed an alliance with Apalachicola Indians who were al- 

 ready in the country, and themselves spread out on both sides of the 

 river, becoming divided into the Kasihta and Coweta (Gatschet, 1888, 

 pp. 41-51). 



When we encounter the Muskogee in later times, they are already 

 settled in the country historically associated with them, part on the 

 Coosa and Tallapoosa and part on the Chattahoochee. When De 

 Soto crossed what is now Georgia, there is evidence that there were 

 Creeks on Flint River, and it is pretty certain that a large body of 

 them were about the present Augusta, while they must have consti- 

 tuted a dominant element in the "Province of Guale" on the Atlantic 

 seaboard of Georgia (U. S. De Soto Exped. Comm., 1939, pp. 172 et 

 seq. ) . Nevertheless, the De Soto chroniclers, by the manner m which 

 they compare them w^ith the Indians along the lower Mississippi after 

 they had encountered the latter, suggest that they had removed from 

 that region at a date not very much anterior. One Muskogee tribe, 

 the Eufaula, can be traced to Euharlee Creek near the famous Etowah 

 works and from that place, in succession, to Eufaula Oldtown on Tal- 

 ladega Creek, and to the lower course of the Tallapoosa, where they 

 gave off a colony which settled on the Chattahoochee and later swarmed 

 again to the Chukochartie, or Red House Hammock (S wanton, 1922, 

 pp. 260-263) , north of Tampa. There is also some reason to think that 

 the Tali, who lived until a late period at the great bend of the Tennessee, 



