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the "Euchee Old Fields" preserve the name, and still later to a 

 town on Hiwassee River called Tsistuyi, by the Cherokee, but usually 

 entered on the maps as Chestowee. Recent researches by T. M. N. 

 Lewis and his associates render it possible, however, that the valley 

 of the Hiwassee River had been occupied by Yuchi for a long period 

 preceding. 



In the meantime the eastern Yuchi had not remained quietly in 

 their home territories. De Soto had merely heard of them, but in 

 1566 Moyano or Boyano, the lieutenant of Juan Pardo, stormed two 

 stockades held by mountain people, one known to have been Chi sea 

 and the other probably of the same tribe. Shortly before 1639 some 

 "Ysicas or Chiscas" had reached the frontiers of Florida, and the 

 Governor of Florida was endeavoring to settle them at a spot where 

 they could be watched and yet would act as protectors of the province. 

 This is probably the band which settled in west Florida somewhat 

 later. At least, in 1674, we learn that three Chi sea Indians threat- 

 ened to interfere with the labors of the missionaries among the Chatot, 

 and it was probably they who committed depredations in and near 

 the Apalachee province immediately after this time and against whom 

 an expedition was undertaken by the Apalachee in 1677 which re- 

 sulted in the capture of one of their stockaded towns in west Florida 

 and the destruction of many Indians. This band of Yuchi came 

 to be known as the Pea Creek Yuchi, and they later settled among 

 the Upper Creeks. A second wave of Yuchi appeared on the Spanish 

 frontiers in 1661, and it is probably these who came to live near the 

 present Augusta, Ga., some time before 1670 ; are mentioned by Lederer 

 under the name Oustack, a synonym for Westo; and were visited by 

 Henry Woodward in 1674. War broke out between them and the 

 English in 1680, and the year following a band of Shawnee fell upon 

 them and drove them from the Savannah. They then retired to the 

 Ocmulgee and still later to the Chattahoochee, where their town ap- 

 pears on many eighteenth century maps about the mouth of Little 

 Uchee Creek. In 1673 still another body of Yuchi were living in a 

 stockaded town on one of the head streams of the Tennessee, where 

 they were visited by some white men sent out by Abraham Wood. 

 Wood calls them Tomahittans and informs us that an indentured 

 servant of his named Gabriel Arthur spent some time with them 

 the following year, visiting a Siouan tribe well to the north and 

 accompanying them on a foray against the Spaniards. Some of these 

 were perhaps the Yuchi who were attacked by the Cherokee at Tsis- 

 tuyi in 1714 and appear upon Savannah River about Uchee Island 

 and Uchee Creek north of Augusta in 1715. In 1716 they removed 

 to the Chattahoochee and settled well down the river not far from 

 the Apalachicola and a band of Shawnee Indians. Later, probably 



