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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,

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