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where signs of hostility were manifested, and it took De Soto about 

 the same length of time to come upon the first Koasati settlement from 

 Chiaha as Pardo took to reach Satapo, we may suspect that Satapo 

 belonged to them. Presumably Chalahume, where Pardo stopped 

 the day before, 2 leagues from Satapo, and where the people were 

 friendly, was in the territory of the Chiaha. De Soto's companions 

 mention several villages passed through after leaving Chiaha, though 

 the night before they came to Costehe they encamped in the open 

 country. 



We have some difficulty in discussing the route from Satapo to 

 Coosa because, if we place Satapo above the main Koasati town, we 

 must suppose that the soldier who informed Vandera regarding the 

 route to Coosa passed inland around Costehe and Tali. It took De 

 Soto 6 days to reach Coosa from Tali in the bend of the Tennessee and 

 that would agree closely with the "five or six" mentioned by the soldier, 

 but to that we should have to add 2 more days consumed in going from 

 the supposed location of Satapo to Tali. Even without that addition, 

 we find that the soldier reached Tasqui in 2 days, while De Soto's army 

 required 4 or 6 from the supposed site of Satapo. The two narratives 

 agree, however, in mentioning three big rivers between the Tennessee 

 and Tasqui. It is possible that a white man with a few Indian com- 

 panions may have covered this part of the route twice as fast as an 

 expeditionary force composed largely of infantry and with many 

 camp followers, particularly if he were in the neighborhood of hostile 

 tribes. 



Our soldier speaks of a town called Tasquiqui near Tasqui, and, 

 though he does not say how long it took him to pass from one to the 

 other, yet we are able to fix its location fairly well from the fact that, 

 1 day's journey beyond, they came upon the ruins of a third town 

 called Olitif ar. There is little doubt that the name of this town was 

 preserved to later times in the form Littafutchee, probably Littaf 

 hatchee, the Creek name of Canoe Creek. But if our soldier seems 

 to have taken too little time to reach Tasqui from the Tennessee 

 River, from Tasqui to Coosa he took too much, De Soto having arrived 

 at Coosa in 2 days while our soldier required 3 and perhaps a little 

 more. In estimating the time required to reach Tascalusa's country 

 from Coosa he is, on the other hand, overly conservative, since he 

 allows but 7 days, while De Soto did not come to the first village that 

 may be supposed to have belonged to Tascalusa until the twelfth day 

 after taking his departure from Coosa. 



The affiliations of most of the towns beyond Joara can be estab- 

 lished with high probability except for the first three. From Chiaha 

 on, the settlements evidently belonged to Muskhogean tribes, as indi- 

 cated by the names in this narrative and in the De Soto chronicles. 



