In the summer of 1701 five Canadians ascended the Tennessee and reached South Carolina, and from one of these Sauvolle, Iberville's brother, who had been left in command of the French fort at Biloxi, obtained considerable information regarding the tribes then settled along that river. He embodied it in an official letter dated at Biloxi, August 4, 1701. From this it appears that the Canadians first came upon a Chickasaw town "about 140 leagues" from the mouth of the Ohio, then upon the "Taougale," a band of Yuchi, an unspecified distance higher up, and "after that the Tale [Tali], where an English man is established to purchase slaves, as they make war with many other nations." [Note: In French the name Tales has been miscopied "Cales."] (Swanton)