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built a fort in the Cheraw ( Joara) country and left a lieutenant named 

 Boyano in charge. On his return from the Cheraw, he circled round 

 toward the east and visited the Guatari Indians, the Wateree of a later 

 date, either on the river which now bears their name or on the Broad. 

 The Guatariatiqui, whom he met 2 days later, were evidently a branch 

 of the same tribe, perhaps the Wateree Chickanee or Little Wateree 

 whom Lawson came among 135 years later. Beyond them he picked up 

 his former trail to Joara about 40 miles north of the present Augusta 

 and returned along it. Before the end of that year Boyano sallied 

 forth into the mountainous country to the north and destroyed a town 

 belonging to the Chisca, i. e., the Yuchi, Indians. Shortly afterward 

 he received word from one of the mountain chiefs, probably Yuchi 

 also, that he was coming to attack him, whereupon Boyano decided to 

 anticipate the visit and with a party of 20 soldiers marched to the 

 palisaded fort of the hostiles, 4 days' journey through the mountains, 

 stormed it, and killed by fire or sword 1,500 Indians. Unless Boyano 

 had with him a large body of Indians whom he leaves in inglorious 

 obscurity, this is a patent exaggeration, but the cooperation of the 

 Cheraw is very likely since Catawba-speaking people and Yuchi were 

 found to be hostile to each other at a later date. In the meantime 

 Boyano had received permission from his superior. Las Alas, at Santa 

 Elena to prosecute his first advantage, and, leaving a garrison at his 

 fort among the Cheraw, Fort San Juan, he came in 4 days to a great 

 stockaded town between two rivers, and in 12 days more to Chiaha, 

 where he built a fort which he named Santa Elena, and awaited the 

 arrival of Pardo. He began planting wheat and barley there and 

 spent much time visiting the Indians in the neighborhood and con- 

 tracting alliances with them. September 1, 1567, Pardo set out from 

 Santa Elena on the coast, ascended into the country to Cofitachequi by 

 the route he had previously taken and to Joara by the long loop 

 through the country of the Wateree. The itinerary from Joara to 

 Chiaha and beyond is given by Pardo in his own letter and by Juan de 

 la Vandera writing from Santa Elena. In 4 days Pardo reached a 

 "very good town consisting of wooden houses" which he calls Tocal,^ 

 but Vandera calls Tocar as rendered by Ruidiaz and Tocax as rendered 

 by Buckingham Smith. This was probably the unnamed stockaded 

 town between two rivers which Boyano had passed through in the same 

 number of days from Joara. In 2 days more Pardo came to a town 

 called Cauchi or Canche "on a good river," in 3 more to Tanasqui, and in 

 one more to Chiaha, or Chihaque, also called Solameco or Lameco. In 

 spite of rumors that the chiefs of four tribes, the "Carrosa (Okalusa), 

 and Chisca (Yuchi) and Costehe (Koasati) and Coza (Coosa)," had 



' It is printed Tocalques but the ques is patently no part of the name. I venture to 

 think that the proper form was Tocare. 

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