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Indians signaled to Laudonniere's survivors about a great enclosed city to the north - Kasihta
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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From the prominent position assigned to Cofitachequi by the De Soto chroniclers, by Pardo and Vandera, and by the later English settlers, it is altogether probable that this was the town which Laudonniere and the Frenchmen left at Charlesfort believed was being described to them as lying inland and ruled by a great chief called Chiquola. Laudonniere says: "Those who survived from the first voyage have assured me that the Indians have made them understand by intelligible signs that farther inland in the same northerly direction was a great inclosure, and within it many beautiful houses, in the midst of which lived Chiquola."4 Laudonniere evidently stumbled upon the name Chiquola from having asked about the Chicora of the Ayllon expedition, with the story of which he was familiar. The Indians, who probably had no r in their language, changed the sound to l and at the same time perhaps gave him a distorted form of one name for the Kasihta, a name which we seem to find again in the form "Tatchequiha" in Owen's letter to Lord Ashley.5 The location indicated also agrees very well with that in which Pardo found Cofitachequi a few years later. (Swanton)
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