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stroyed. This, however, was incorrect since later historians men- 

 tion them among the small tribes of the region, and Bienville, in his 

 account of the Louisiana tribes written about 1725, says that they 

 were in a village on Pearl River not far from the Biloxi. Their 

 language and customs seem to have been almost identical with those 

 of the Choctaw, with whom they no doubt ultimately united. 



Pensacola fopulation. — Bienville says, in the memoir above noted, 

 that this tribe and the Biloxi together had about 40 warriors. 



PILTHLAKO (OPILLAKO) 



This was a Creek town or tribe of considerable prominence, prob- 

 ably a branch of some better-known Creek division. It appears on 

 the De Crenay map of 1733 and repeatedly until 1799, when Hawkins 

 visited it and described its location. Possibly it was one of those 

 which removed to Florida after the Creek War, as it does not ap- 

 pear in the census lists of 1832. They may have split from the Okchai. 



Pilthlako population. — The French census of 1750 gives 10 war- 

 riors in this town, a number which the census of 1760 raises to 40, 

 and in 1792 Marbury enumerates 30 warriors in Pilthlako and 

 Asilanabi together. 



POHOY, POOT, POJOI, OR POSOYE 



A tribe or province probably connected with the Timucua located 

 on Tampa Bay and apparently identical with the Ogita of the De 

 Soto chroniclers, at least in part. In 1612 it was visited by a Spanish 

 expedition under an Ensign named Cartaya. In 1675 Bishop Cal- 

 deron speaks of a "Pojoy Eiver" which was "6 [leagues] from the 

 beach of Pusale." In 1680 there is reference to it as "a Calusa 

 Province" occupied by a non-Christian people, but these Indians 

 were clearly distinct from the Calusa although bordering upon them. 

 Some time before 1726, about 20 of these Indians were placed in a 

 mission called Santa Fe 9 leagues south of St. Augustine, but an 

 epidemic had destroyed most of them by that date, and before 1728 

 the rest had returned to their former abodes. (See Ogita.) 



Pohoy population. — In 1680 there were said to be 300. The only 



other figures are given above. 



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POTANO 



One of the most powerful of the Timucuan tribes, first encountered 

 by De Soto in their historic seats in the western part of what is now 

 Alachua County, Fla. In 1565 the French colonists on St. Johns River 

 assisted the rival Utina Indians in a raid into the Potano country. 

 After the Spaniards had displaced the French, this tribe caused them 



