SWANTON] INDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 253

 At a very early date, however, a large body of Natchez passed over
 from the Chickasaw to the Creeks. In fact this was probably the
 largest section of the nation. Their settlement among the Creeks
 antedated 1744, for Adair, in enumerating the Creek towns, says:
 With them also is one town of the Sha-wa-no, and one of the Nah-
 chee Indians; and further on he mentions Ooe-Asah, the upper
 western town of the Muskohgeh, settled by the Chickasaw and Nah-
 chee." Ooe-Asah was probably more Chickasaw than Natchez,
 but the largest number of the Natchez immigrants into Creek terri-
 tory ultimately formed a town of their own bearing their name on
 Tallahatchee creek, formerly called Natche creek, 10 miles above its
 junction with Coosa river, in the southeastern part of Talladega
 county, Ala. (pl. 6, b). They also formed a part of the population
 of Abikudshi, 5 miles below. Bouquet's estimate of 1704 gives the
 number of their warriors as 150.1 Swan, who visited the Creeks in
 1791, speaks of the Natchez as occupying more villages than one, and
 says of them: The Natchez, or Sunset Indians, from the Missis-
 sippi, joined the Creeks about fifty years since, after being driven out
 from Louisiana, and added considerably to the confederative body."
 He mentions their chief, Dog Warrior, as one of the most prominent
 in the confederacyv-
 Hawkins, in his Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798
 and 1799, speaks of the Natchez town as follows:
 Naut-ch'ec. on Nanchee creek. 5 miles above Au-be-coo-che, below the fork of
the creek, oni a rich tint of land of a mile in width, between two small moun-
tains. This lint extends from the town three(-qularters of a mile above the town
house. The settlements are scattered on both sides of the creek for 2 miles;
they have no worm fences, and but little stock. One chief, a brother of Chin-
a-be. has a large slock of hogs, and had 90 tit for market in 1798.
 This town is the remains of the Nat-chez who lived on the Mississippi. They
estimate their number of gun men at 100, but they are probably not more
than 50. The land off from the mountains is rich; the high, waving country
is very healthy and well watered; cane grows in the creeks, reed on the
branches, and pea vine on the flats and hillsides. The Indians get the root
they call tal-e-wau in this neighborhood, which the women mix with bear's
oil to redden their hair.'

 He says nothing of Natchez at Abikudshi except incidentally in
referring to Co-tau-lau (Tus-se-ki-ah Mic-co), an old and respect-
able chief, descended from Nan-che. He lives near We-o-coof-ke,
has accumulated a handsome property, owns a fine stock, is a man
 "Adair,. Hist. Amer. Ind., 257.
 b Ibid., 319.
 I In JelTerson, Notes on Virginia, 140 t1 passim, 1S02.
 a Swan (1791) in Scihoolcraft, Ind. Triles, v, 210, 263, 1855.
 e Hawkins's Sketch in Ga. Hist. Soc. Coll., ill, 42.