148 BUBEAU OF AMERICAN ETIIN01>0GY [Bull. 137 



year they took part with the Natchez in an attack upon the Tunica 

 Indians, and that is the last we hear of them. It is probable that 

 they first retired to the Chickasaw, but since the Choctaw chief Allen 

 Wright claimed to be descended from a Koroa, part of the tribe 

 would appear to have reached the Choctaw. 



Koroa population. — This tribe is perhaps included in the 300 

 families of which Iberville in 1702 estimated the Tunica, Yazoo, and 

 Ofo to consist. In 1722 La Harpe considered that the Yazoo, Koroa, 

 and Ofo numbered 250, all told. In 1730 Le Petit allows them 40 

 warriors and about the same time Du Pratz states that they had 

 40 cabins. (See Yazoo and Tunica.) 



MACAPIRAS OR AMACAPIRAS 



A tribe whose original home seems to have been near the Calusa, 

 since from that country 24 were brought to one of the missions near 

 St. Augustine, Fla., before 1726 along with "Posoye" (Pohoy) 

 Indians. Some of these were destroyed in a pestilence and the 

 remainder returned to their old homes before 1728. Their exact 

 connection is unknown, though they may have been part of the 

 Tocobaga (q. v.). 



MACHAPUNGA 



A tribe living between Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, N. C, at 

 the end of the seventeenth century. In 1701 they occupied a single 

 village called Mattamuskeet. They sided with the hostiles in the 

 Tuscarora War of 1711-13 and at its end the survivors of this tribe 

 and the Coree were settled on a tract of land on Mattamuskeet Lake, 

 where they gradually disappeared in the surrounding population. 



Machapunga population. — In 1709 they numbered 30 warriors or 

 perhaps 100 souls, but to these should perhaps be added the Bear 

 River Indians with 50 fighting men, or 160-170 people. 



MANAHOAC 



This tribe or small confederation lived in 1607 in the Piedmont 

 country about the upper waters of the Rappahannock River, Va. In 

 1654, perhaps owing to attacks by the Susquehanna Indians, they 

 moved south along with the Tutelo and settled near the falls of James 

 River. This movement terrified the white colonists to such an extent 

 that they sent a body of troops, assisted by Powhatan Indians, 

 against the intruders, but the allied force suffered a severe defeat. 

 The Manahoac, or a part of them, seem to have settled on and given 

 their name to Mohawk Creek, a southern affluent of the James, where 

 they were found by John Lederer. Two of the Manahoac tribes 

 are enumerated among those brought to Fort Christanna on Meherrin 



