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as probably the correct original, and this would be pronounced by a 

 Spaniard Sa-ushpa. Usi may have been a synonym for "Xoxi" (pro- 

 nounced Shoshi) of the Ayllon narratives, and both of the coastal tribe 

 Sewee. The river of Guatari was probably the Santee though the 

 Pee Dee and Waccamaw enter the ocean close to its mouth. (B. 

 Smith, 1857; Lowery, 1901, pp. 274-298; Ruidiaz, 1894, vol. 2, pp. 

 465-473, 477-486; Hamilton, 1910, pp. 520-527; cf. Swanton, 1936.) 



The rest of the names of tribes given in these narratives I classify 

 as follows, taking the list as given by Vandera, since that is the most 

 complete : 



Uscamacu, Ahoya, and Ahoyabe we know, on independent evidence, 

 to have belonged to the Cusabo province or tribe, itself affiliated with 

 the Muskhogean stock. Cozao represents the later Coosa of South 

 Carolina, distinct as a body from the Coosa Indians of Alabama and 

 usually classed with the Cusabo but very likely an eastern offshoot 

 of the Coosa River Muskogee. Guiomaez, 40 leagues from Santa 

 Elena and 10 from Cofitachequi, was probably a Muskhogean town. 

 Ross indentifies it with the "Aymay" or "Hymahi" of the De Soto 

 narratives, but if she is right, there were two divisions of the tribe 

 or it had moved across the Savannah between 1540 and 1566. If we 

 may assume a still later movement to the coast, we may also identify 

 it with the Wimbee. Cofitachequi has already been discussed 

 at considerable length and reasons shown for regarding it as a Mus- 

 kogee center, occupied by a part of the Indians later known as 

 Lower Creeks. 



Tagaya, the place immediately north of Cofitachequi, may also have 

 been Muskhogean, but I am inclined to see in it the first Siouan settle- 

 ment, and there is more reason to identify the next place, Gueza, with 

 Waxhaw than to connect Usi with it. In that case, we must assume 

 a later movement toward the northeast, but I have shown that there 

 is evidence for such a general movement among other Siouan tribes. 

 The T in Aracuchi or Racuchi, which comes next, ties that town up 

 pretty certainly with the Catawba-speaking Siouans, and there can, 

 of course, be little question regarding Otariyatiqui and Guatari. 

 Quinahaqui, being surrounded by Catawba-Siouan places should also 

 be Catawba-Siouan. This is evident if the name for the place given 

 by Pardo in his own communication, Quirotoqui, is accepted. We 

 are informed that Issa, already identified as a synonym of Iswa, 

 and perhaps standing for the Catawba tribe proper, lay 12 leagues 

 to the "left," i.e., west of this. Aguaquiri, which comes next, also 

 carries the probability of its Catawba connection with it, and in it 

 we recognize the Guaquili of the De Soto chronicles, except that 

 De Soto had a Muskhogean interpreter instead of a Siouan one. The 

 next place is Joara, Juada, Xuala, etc., the Saraw or Cheraw. 



