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// It cau po gau. The place where friends were made & quarrels settled.

  Thlu,lou,pau, hat,che    Clam Creek.
  Oc, chil, lau, las, cau,  ubulgau,   Burch Creek
  Tha,ho,po,ie,ches -  Bowlegs of  Au,lot,chewau.

 Note: In describing the buildings in the square, the technical phrase, occur of plates  & slabs. By a plate is meant a hewn log laying over the others, thus: (knit with thongs)

drawing of logs vertical & perpendicular The slab is the outer slice from the log, with the bark on, thus the outsides being slabs. circle with 2 vertical lines

 Oche Hanjo -    Mad Hickory

 From a note in Adair's History of the Indians.  quarto.  page 178.

Tuccabatches on the Tallapoosa river, thirty miles above the Allabahamah garrison, are two brazen tables & five of copper. They esteem them so sacred as to keep them constantly in their holy of holies, without touching them in the least, only in the time of their compounded first fruit offering, and annual expiation of sins; at which season, their magus carries one under his arm, a head of the people, dancing round the sacred arbour; next to him, their head-warrior carries another; and those warriors who chuse it, carry the rest after the manner of the high priest; all the others carry white canes with Swan feathers at the top. Hearing accidentally of these important monuments of antiquity, and enquiring pretty much about them, I was certified of the truth of the report by four of the Southern traders, at the most eminent Indian trading house of all English America. One of the gentlemen informed me that at my request he endeavoured to