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ably increased in population. These people are said to be 

 slovenly and dirty in their dress, but ingenious, sensible and 

 virtuous. Late travellers, however, have represented them 

 as paying little regard to their moral conduct, and that un- 

 natural crimes were too frequently practiced among them. 

 There is an inveterate enmity between the Choctaws and 

 Creek Indians. 



The Creek confederacy forms the largest and most pow- 

 erful nation of Indians south of the Ohio. The nation with 

 whom the confederacy originated, was called Muskogulge. 

 who emigrated from the west, beyond the Mississippi, and 

 established themselves on the ruins of the Natchez. These 

 people made their first settlement on the Oakmulge Fields, in 

 the State of Georgia. They gradually subdued their sur- 

 rounding enemies, and then strengthened themselves by 

 taking into confederacy the vanquished tribes. The princi- 

 pal nations and tribes composing this union, are the Appa- 

 laGhies, Alabamas, Abecas, Cawillaws, Coosas, Conshacks, 

 Coosactees, Chacsihoomas, Natchez, Oconies, Oakmulgies, 

 Okohoys, Pakanas, Taensas, Talepoosas, Weetunkas, and 

 others who have since been united with them. This con- 

 federation has rendered them formidable to all the nations 

 around them, as well as to the white people, and has ren- 

 dered them victorious over the Chickasaws. They are 

 divided into Upper Creeks, and Middle and Lower Creeks. 

 The Upper Creeks include all the waters of the Koose, Tale- 

 poose and Alabama rivers, and are called Abbaco. Their 

 hunting ground extends to the Tombigby river, which is 

 the dividing line between the Creeks and Chocktaws. The 

 Middle Creeks include all the waters of the Chattahoose 

 and Flint rivers, down to their junction, and although occu- 

 pied by a great number of different tribes, the whole are 

 called Coiveta people, from the Cowetan town and tribe, the 

 most warlike, and one of the most ancient of the Creek na- 

 tion. The Lower Creeks take in the Appalachicola river, 

 and extend to the point of East Florida. This division is 

 called the Seminoles. They have fifty-five principal towns, 

 besides maoy villages. The smallest towns ha.vefrom twenty 



