his authorities. Maps of the supposed route, all bringing De Soto down
the ( loosa instead of the ( lhattahoochee, have been published in [rving's ( ionquest of
Florida, the Hakluyt Society's edition of the Gentleman of El va's account, and in
Buckingham Smith's translation of the same narrative, as well as in several other
works. For the eastern portion, with which we have to deal, all of these arc prac-
tically duplicates of one another. On several old Spanish and French maps the
names mentioned in the narrative seem to have been set down merely to till space,
without much reference to the text of the chronicle. For a list and notices of prin-
cipal writers who have touched upon this subject see the appendix to Shea's chapter
on "Ancient Florida" in Winsor's Narrative and CriticalHistory of America, n; Bos-
ton, 1886. We shall speak only of that part of the route which lav near the < Iherokee
mountains.
The first location which concerns us in the narrative is: Cofitaehiqui, the town
from which De Soto set out for the Cherokee country. The name appears variously
as Cofitachequi (Ranjel), Cofitachique (Biedma), Cofachiqui (Garcilaso), Cutifa-
Chiqui (by transposition, Elvas), Cofetacque (Vandera), Catafachique (Williams)
and Cosatachiqui (misprint, Brooks MSS), and the Spaniards first heard of the
region as Yupaha from a tribe farther to the south. The correct form appeals to lie
that first given, which Gatschet, from later information than that quoted in his
(feck Migration Legend, makes a Hitchitee word about equivalent to "Dogwood
town," fromco/i, "dogw 1," coftta, "dogwood thicket," zndchiki, "house," orcol-
lectively "town." McCulloch puts the town upon the headwaters of the