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Cherokee but as well to other non-Muskogee tribes, such as the Catawba and 

 their allies. If that is the case, the use of the term in the De Soto chronicles 

 does not prove that the Cherokee were then in their historic seats. 



As a consequence of this opinion, Swanton regards the intrusion 

 of the Cherokee into the southern mountains as relatively recent, 

 and in partial explanation of this opinion says : 



I am now inclined to agree with Hewitt, contrary to an earlier opinion, that 

 the Tallike or Talliquewi of the Walam Olum were part of the Miami and not 

 the Cherokee. 



While Haywood's story of Cherokee origins is unreliable, we have good evi- 

 dence that they did move down from about the section indicated, New River, 

 along the great war trail west of the Blue Ridge. 



It is plain from some early maps (see Popple and Mitchell maps) that the 

 name Hogohego, or Hogohegee, was applied to the Tennessee River and not 

 merely to the Holston. The name appears to refer to the Yuehi. 



A very important item of evidence of early Cherokee location is 

 mentioned by Royce, when he states that — 



On various maps of North America, and particularly those of De L'Isle, be- 

 tween the years 1700 and 1712, will be found indicated upon the extreme head- 

 waters of the Holston and Clinch Rivers, "gros villages des Cheraqui." These 

 villages correspond in location with the great nation alluded to in the narrative 

 of Sir William Berkeley's expedition. 



Upon the same maps will be found designated the sites of sundry other 

 Cherokee villages, several of which are on the extreme headwaters of "R. des 

 Chaouanons." This river, although indicated on the map as emptying into the 

 Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Santee, from its relation to the other streams 

 in that vicinity, is believed to be intended for the Broad River, which is a prin- 

 cipal northwest branch of the Santee. Other towns will also be found on the 

 banks of the Upper Catawba, and they are, as well, quite numerous along the 

 headwaters of the "R. des Caouilas", or Savannah, and of the Little Tennessee. 



Of the conditions and situation of the Cherokee at the time of the 

 English settlement Royce says: 



At the time of the English settlement of the Carolinas the Cherokees occupied 

 a diversified and well-watered region of country of large extent upon the waters 

 of the Catawba, Broad, Saluda, Keowee, Tugaloo, Savannah, and Coosa Rivers 

 on the east and south, and several of the tributaries on the Tennessee on the 

 north and west. It is impossible at this late day to define with absolute accu- 

 racy the original limits of the Cherokee claim. In fact, like all other tribes, 

 they had no definite and concurrent understanding with their surrounding sav- 

 age neighbors where the possessions of the one left off and those of the other 

 began. The strength of their title to any particular tract of country usually 

 decreased in proportion to the increase of the distance from their villages ; 

 and it commonly followed, as a result, that a considerable strip of territory 

 between the settlements of two powerful tribes, though claimed by both, was 

 practically considered as neutral ground and the common hunting ground of 

 both. 



As has already been stated, the extreme eastern settlements of the Cherokee 

 in South Carolina in 1693 were in the district of country lying between the 

 Catawba and Broad Rivers, and no claim has been found showing the existence 



