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 SECT. III.] SOUTHERN INDIANS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 83 consisting chiefly of southern Indians under the command of Colonel Moore, was again sent by the government of South Carolina to assist the northern colony. He besieged and took a fort of the Tuscaroras, called Narahuke, near the Cotechney, between the Taw and Neuse rivers, (March, 1713.) Of eight hundred prisoners, six hundred were given up to the Southern Indians, who carried them to South Carolina to sell them as slaves. The eastern Tuscaroras, whose principal town was on the Taw, twenty miles above Washington, immediately made peace, and a portion was settled a few years after north of the Roanoke, near Windsor, where they continued till the year 1803. But the great body of the nation removed in 1714-15, to the Five Nations, was received as the sixth, and has since shared their fate.* The Tuscarora vocabulary prepared by Nich. and Jas. Cassick, native Indians, was received through the War Depart- ment. SECTION III. SOUTHERN INDIANS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. The nations still found east of the Mississippi, and south of the territory formerly occupied by the Lenape and Iroquois tribes, are the remnant of the Catawbas, the Cherokees, the Creek confederacy and the Seminoles, the Choctaws and the Chickasas. Of the other numerous tribes, which appear to have formerly inhabited the lower country of Carolina, the eastern part of Georgia, and West Florida, we have but partial and very imperfect accounts. In the year 1670, when English emigrants first settled in South Carolina, four tribes are mentioned near the seashore between the rivers Ashley and Savannah : — the Stonoes, Edis- toes, Westoes, and Savannahs. As the Westoes are said to have occupied the country between the Ashley and the Edisto rivers,! it seems probable that the first three tribes were but one nation. They are represented as cruel and hostile, and a war between them and the white settlers began in or before the compared. f Ramsay and Hewatt,.
 * The account of this war is derived from Hewatt and Williamson