. Bulletin. Ethnology. YUCHI MAN. (f. G. SPECK, PHOTO.) Yuchi town, appears to be INIuskhogean, and, if the indentitication of the Westo with the Yuchi is correct, there is good reason for l)elieving that the people of Cofitachique were something else. Al- though there is known to have been one settlement of the Yuchi on Tennessee r., the rest of them ajiparently occupied one continuous area and seem to have consti- tuted a homogeneous people. This area embraced the entire mid-course of Savan- nah r., and probably included most of the Ogeechee, which was sometimes known as Hughchee (i. e. Yuch
. Bulletin. Ethnology. YUCHI MAN. (f. G. SPECK, PHOTO.) Yuchi town, appears to be INIuskhogean, and, if the indentitication of the Westo with the Yuchi is correct, there is good reason for l)elieving that the people of Cofitachique were something else. Al- though there is known to have been one settlement of the Yuchi on Tennessee r., the rest of them ajiparently occupied one continuous area and seem to have consti- tuted a homogeneous people. This area embraced the entire mid-course of Savan- nah r., and probably included most of the Ogeechee, which was sometimes known as Hughchee (i. e. Yuchi) r. In 1739a Yuchi town. Mount Pleasant, existed on Savan- nah r. 25 m. above Ebenezer, hence in Screven co., Ga., probably near the mouth of Brier cr. Tracts on the w. side of that r. extending as far s. as Ebenezer or., Ef- fingham CO., and others above and below Augusta were claimed by the Yuchi as late as 1740. Hawkins in 1799 (Sketch, 61, 1848) stated that Yuchi were for- merly settled in small villages at Ponpon, Saltketchers (these two, however, were Yamasee centers), Silver Bluff, and Ogee- chee, and were continually at war with the Cherokee, Catawba, and Creeks. This gives them a wide range on both sides of Savannah r. Filson (Discov. of Ky., 1793) said that the "Uchees occupy four differ- ent places of residence, at the head of St. John's, the fork of St. Mary's, the head of Cannouchee (Cannochee), and the head of St. Tilles [Satilla].'' The princi- pal Yuchi town among the Lower Creeks hadiuHawkins' time (1799) sentout three colonies eastward: Intatchkalgi, Padshi- laika, andTokogalgi (their Creek names). Another Yuchi town is mentioned by Morse (1822) near Miccosukee, Leon co., N. Fla. Some of the Yuchi settled with the Savannah Indians on Tallapoosa r. Hawkins estimated the "gun-men" in Yuchi and these branch villages at 250. Bartram_(Trav., 887, 1792) points out their relations to the Creeks as fol- lows: "Theyare in confederacy with the Cree
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