212 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 137 



On the outbreak of the Natchez War, they joined the hostile In- 

 dians, murdered Father Souel, who had settled among them as mis- 

 sionary in 1727, and massacred the French garrison. Not long aft- 

 erward, Charlevoix states that the Quapaw fell upon this tribe, 

 the Koroa, and the Tiou, destroying all of the last mentioned and 

 leaving only 15 men of the two others. When the Natchez were 

 fortified on Sicily Island, it is said that the Yazoo and Koroa had 

 a fort by themselves, and we hear that they took part in 1731 in the 

 attack on the Tunica. Afterward they probably withdrew to the 

 Chickasaw or Choctaw and we no longer hear of them. The two 

 Yazoo towns among the Choctaw may have derived their name 

 from the tribe so-called but, if so, it was in the remote prehistoric 

 past. 



Yazoo fopulation. — In 1700 Gravier estimated that there were 

 30 cabins in the Yazoo village, which Du Pratz, 25 or 30 years 

 later, increases to 100. In 1722 La Harpe estimated 250 souls in 

 the Yazoo, Koroa, and Ofo tribes together. In 1730, according to 

 Le Petit, there were 40 warriors in the combined Yazoo and Koroa 

 tribes. (See Tunica.) 



TEOPIM 



See Weapemeoc, page 206. 



TUCHI 



These Indians originally consisted of a number of distinct bands, 

 each under an independent name, and we first hear of any of them 

 with certainty under the term Chisca. The people thus designated 

 were living in De Soto's time in the hilly country of eastern Ten- 

 nessee. De Soto sent two soldiers to the province occupied by 

 them, lured by reports that there was "a forge there for copper, or 

 other metal of that color," which, of course, they hoped to be gold, 

 but, becoming discouraged at the length of the way and the rough- 

 ness of the roads, these men gave up the quest. After crossing the 

 Mississippi, De Soto was himself lured toward the north, to a 

 province called Pacaha, because it was said to be near this Chisca. 

 It is probable that these stories were true except for the occurrence 

 of gold, for we find somewhat later that there were two bodies of 

 Yuchi Indians in Tennessee, one on the western flanks of the Ap- 

 palachians or the plateau country beyond, the other on Tennessee 

 River just above Muscle Shoals. The second of these was visited 

 by five Canadians who ascended the Tennessee in the summer of 1701 

 and found them between a Chickasaw town and the village of a 

 tribe called Taly. After this date they seem to have moved up 

 the river to the territory later comprised in Meigs County, where 



