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states that they had been reduced to 200-300 warriors, but the usual 

 figure for the latter part of the eighteenth century is 500. This is 

 given in the Georgia Colonial Records for the year 1739, and by John 

 Stuart in 1764. Adair reports 450 for this period, an anonymous 

 French writer 560, and Capt. Thomas Hutchins and Colonel Bouquet 

 in 1764, 750. Lower figures are ventured by Rev. Elam Potter, 300- 

 400 warriors in 1768, and 250 by Romans in 1771. In 1780 Purcell 

 estimated 575 warriors and a total population of 2,290 which Schermer- 

 hom (1814) increases to 3,500, Morse (1817) to 3,625, and Gen. Peter 

 B. Porter (1829) to 3,600. A report reproduced by Schoolcraft, which 

 is dated 1833, gives 4,715. In 1836 we begin to have estimates made 

 by the -United States Indian Office which indicates surprising uni- 

 formity down to the present time, allowing for intermarried whites 

 and freedmen. They never drop as low as 4,000 nor rise much higher 

 than 5,500. In 1919 there were reported 5,659 by blood, 645 inter- 

 married, and 4,652 freedmen. Mooney's estimate for the Chickasaw 

 population in the year 1650 is 8,000; my own for 1700 is 3,000-3,500. 



CHILUCAN 



This tribe is mentioned in an enumeration of the Indians in Florida 

 missions made in 1726. There were then 70 individuals belonging to 

 it at the Mission of San Buenaventura and 62 at that of Nombre de 

 Dios. They were probably related to one of the better -known Florida 

 groups, and it is not unlikely that the word "Chilucan" is from the 

 Creek chiloki meaning ^'people of a different speech." Since San 

 Buenaventura is said to have been occupied by Mocama Indians, "all 

 old Christians," it is probable that these Chilucan were remnants of 

 the old Timucua population of Cumberland Island. 



CHINE 



A tribe associated in 1675 with two others called Caparaz and 

 Amacano, in a doctrina known as San Luis on the seacoast of the 

 Apalachee country. The name seems to have been in reality that of 

 a chief of a body of Chatot Indians (q.v.). Later they may have 

 removed into the Apalachee country for a list of missions dated 1680 

 includes one called San Pedro de los Chines. 



Chme population. — Their village and the villages of the other two 

 tribes mentioned above contained 300 people in all. 



CHITIMACHA 



A tribe about Grand Lake, La., and between Bayou Lafourche, 

 Bayou La Teche, and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. They first 

 appear as one of four tribes with which Iberville made an alliance 



