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De Soto found the Ocute land with fertile fields along rivers
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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Assuming, then, that Ocute and Aeykite are synonyms for Hitchiti, we will now proceed to trace the history of this tribe. Elvas says: "The governor [De Soto] set out [from Achese] on the first day of April [1540] and advanced through the country of the chief, along up a river, the shores of which were very populous. On the fourth he went through the town of Altamaca, and on the tenth arrived at Ocute.2" And elsewhere he adds: "The land of Ocute is more strong and fertile than the rest, the forest more open, and it has very good fields along the margins of the rivers.'' Ranjel says that, after passing Altamaha they met a chief named Camumo, who, along with others, was a subject of "a great chief whose name was Ocute." The chief of Ocute furnished bearers and provisions to the Spaniards, though apparently not without protest, and the latter set up a wooden cross in his village as an entering wedge to conversion.1 Ocute would seem to have been the province called Cofa by Garcilasso, which he describes as "suitable for cattle, very productive in corn, and very delightful."2 (Swanton)
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