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58 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 103
French and the Indians of Kunshak and Chickasawhay, it had become
the strongest and had prevailed. A part of the Sixtown Indians
sided with the English, one town in particular committing itself so
far in their favor as to be renamed Inkilis Tamaha, or English
Town. Tala is also known to have belonged to their party as well
as Nuskobo, of which much less is heard, and indeed the ancient
Choctaw " capital," Koweh chito, was anglophile.
To date eight authorities for the names of the Choctaw towns are
known to us: Iberville (1702), De Lusser (1730), Regis du Roul-
let (1732), De Crenay (1733), a French Memoir dated conjecturally
in 1755, but probably belonging to or representing a still earlier
period, a list compiled in 1764 to assist the English in their dealings
with the Choctaw, Romans (1771), and a list made in connection
with a treaty between Col. Don Estevan Miro, Governor of Lou-
isiana, and Lieut. Col. Don Enrique Gumarest, Military and Civil
Governor of Fort Carlota de la Movila, on one side and the Choctaw
Nation on the other, July 13-14, 1784.*"'^ In connection with the
Romans list we have the advantage of a careful review and criticism
by Henry S. Halbert. It is unfortunate that, when his commentary
was published, he did not have access to the other lists mentioned.
In the following table all are reproduced, together with Mr. Hal-
bert's identifications and interpretations, and any other interpreta-
tions which the Avriter has been able to supply.
The letters C, E, W, and S placed after the names of towns indi-
cate the division in which the author of that particular list has
placed them, whether Central, Eastern, Western, or Sixtown (i. e.,
Southern). After names given on the authority of Bernard Rom-
ans, (M) indicates one taken from his map, (N) one from his narrative,
and (WFM) one from a West Florida Map supposed to have
been based, at least in part, on his notes.
«» Documents concernant Thistoire des Indiens de la region orientale de la Louisiane, by
Le Baron Marc de Villiers (Journal de la Soci6t6 des Am^ricanistes de Paris, n. s., vol.
XIV, 1922, pp. 138-139) ; Ms. Journal in the archives of the Ministry of the Colonies,
transcribed for the Library of Congress, Ms. Division ; Notes sur les Chactas d'aprfes les
Journaux de Voyage de R6gis du Roullet (1729-1732), by Le Baron Marc de Villiers
(Journal de la Society des Am6ricanlstes de Paris, n. s., vol. xv, pp. 244-248) ; Ms. map
in the archives of the Ministry of the Colonies, Paris, copies of which were obtained by
Mr. Peter A. Hamilton, of Mobile, who also reproduced portions of it in Colonial Mobile,
ed. of 1910, pp. 190, 196, also PI. 5 in Bull. 73, Bur. Amer. Ethn. ; Ms. French Memoir in
the Ayer collection of Americana, Newberry Library, Chicago (see Appendix, p. 257) ;
Mississippi Provincial Archives (176.3-1766), ed. by Dunbar Rowland, vol. 1, pp. 26-28;
Bernard Romans, Natural Uistory of East and West Florida, map republished in Vol. 2
of the Publications of tlie Florida State Hi.storical Society; copies of Mss. in the Mis-
sissippi State Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss,