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nearer the Gulf coast at some period in their past history and tradi- 

 tion seems to be supported by the Lamhatty map, which appears to 

 give their name to the Choctawhatchee Kiver and place their town 

 nearby. The journal of Capt. Francisco Milan Tapia, who coasted 

 the Gulf from St. Marks to Pensacola in 1693, informs us that the 

 eastern mouth of the Apalachicola River was called "Sabacola." In 

 Calderon's time there seems to have been another branch of the tribe 

 living with the Lower Creeks below the falls of the Chattahoochee, 

 and to this Fray Juan Ocon and two other missionaries were sent in 

 1679, but they were ordered away by the great chief of the Coweta. 

 Two years later. Fray Francisco Gutierrez de Vera and another Fran- 

 ciscan were sent back with an escort of soldiers, and great expectations 

 were entertained of the success of the mission, but within a few months 

 the Indians became hostile and they were forced to withdraw. The 

 Christianized Indians withdrew with them apparently to the site of the 

 lower mission at Santa Cruz. Possibly all of the Sawokli may have 

 moved north and returned, but our authorities do not make this point 

 clear. In 1706 or 1707, the Sawokli were driven from this country, 

 or rather, it seems, carried away, by hostile Indians in alliance with the 

 English and we hear of them next among the Lower Creeks only, where 

 all appear to have gathered for a time. Part, at least, seem to have 

 settled upon Ocmulgee River, but after the Yamasee War (1715) we 

 find them all on or near the Chattahoochee, lower down than all other 

 constituent bodies of the Confederation except the Lower Eufaula. 

 Besides a Big and Little Sawokli, there were two branch towns here 

 called Okawaigi and Okiti-yakani. In 1832 another is recorded called 

 Hatcheetcaba. There was yet another well up the Chattahoochee, 

 sometimes placed between Kasihta and Coweta, its name spelt Tcawokli 

 rather than Sawokli, and apparently called in one place New Tamathli. 

 After removing to Oklahoma, the Sawokli settled near Okmulgee. 

 They soon gave up their independent Square Ground and united in 

 ceremonies with the Hitchiti. 



There are indications of an offshoot of this tribe in a very unex- 

 pected place. A French map, which has been conjecturally dated in 

 1697, enters a tribe called "Sabougla" on Yazoo River, in the present 

 State of Mississippi, and the name is still preserved in an affluent of 

 the Yalobusha and a post office. This name is corrupted on Daniel 

 Coxe's map into "Samboukia." 



Sawokli population. — A mission noted by Governor Salazar, but 

 which seems to have been confounded with another in a different sec- 

 tion, is said to have had "about 40 people" in 1675. This certainly 

 included only a fraction of the nation. In 1738 a Spanish 

 report estimated 20 men in Sawokli and its villages, besides 26 in New 

 Tamathli and 12 in Old Tamathli. In 1750 a French estimate gives 



