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Bartram gives an excellent description of this town as it appeared in 

 1777. In 1778 part of the Kolomi, along with some of the Fus-hatchee 

 and part of the Okchai, besides an Alabama contingent from Tawasa 

 and Kan-hatki, moved to Florida, and a tradition, which there is little 

 reason to doubt, says that the rest of the town followed after the Creek 

 War of 1813-14. These Indians may have constituted a large part of 

 the population of Suwannee Oldtown, since its chief was named Ko- 

 lomi Miko. A tradition preserved among the Creeks as late as 1912 

 asserted that the Kolomi finally united with the Fus-hatchee, Kan- 

 hatki, and Atasi, and that is not improbable since these towns were 

 located near one another. If so, they may have formed the Thliwa- 

 liali town among the Seminole, but their ultimate fate is actually 

 unknown. 



Kolomi population. — The following estimates of the number of 

 warriors or hunters in Kolomi have been preserved : 50 in 1738, 25 in 

 1750, and 50 again in 1760, 1761, and 1792. 



KOROA 



It is possible that this tribe appears in the De Soto narratives as 

 the Coligua or Coligoa discovered somewhere in Arkansas, probably 

 at Little Rock, in 1541. On Marquette's map they are called Akoroa 

 and are placed somewhere west of the Quapaw. La Salle ( 1682) gave 

 the name to two distinct bodies of Indians, one on Yazoo River, the 

 other on the east side of the Mississippi below the Natchez. These 

 last were probably the Tiou of later writers. There was at this time 

 not only a settlement on Yazoo River but villages west of the Missis- 

 sippi in that neighborhood mentioned by Tonti. Bienville was told of 

 such a village but did not enter it, and we hear of a "river Coroas." 

 The Koroa east of the Mississippi seem to have spent much of their 

 time along the great river itself, since a part of the littoral there 

 was known as the bank of the Koroa, mention is made of a Koroa 

 channel, and Penicaut speaks of a Koroa village on the Mississippi. 

 In 1702 a French missionary named Foucault was killed among these 

 people, but the Koroa chiefs had the murderer slain. In 1704 they 

 are said to have suffered severely at the hands of the Quapaw and 

 Illinois, and about this time they probably moved back to the Yazoo 

 River, where they settled near the related Yazoo Indians. In 1729, 

 on the outbreak of the Natchez war, the Koroa and Yazoo murdered 

 the missionary P. Seuel and massacred the garrison of Fort St. Peter 

 in their country, but shortly afterward they were themselves attacked 

 by the Chakchiuma and Choctaw, who were in the French interest, 

 and still later by the Quapaw. In 1731, when Perrier advanced 

 against the Natchez on Tensas River, it was reported that the Koroa 

 and Yazoo were occupying a fort by themselves. Later the same 



