county, Georgia; (2) on Canasauga creek, m
McMinn county, Tennessee; (3) on Tuckasegee river, about two miles above Web-
ster, in Jackson county, North Carolina. At each of these places are remains of
ancient settlement. It is possible that the name of Kenesaw mountain, near .Mari-
etta, in Cobb county, < reorgia, may be a corruption of GansagI, and if so, theCanasagua
of the narrative may have been somewhere in this vicinity on the Chattahoochee.
The meaning of the name is lost.
On leaving Canasagua they continued down the same river which they had fol-
lowed from Cuaxule (Garcilaso I, and after traveling several days through an unin-
habited ( "despoblado" ,) country I HI vast arrived at Chiaha. which was subject to the
great chief of Coca (Elvasj . The name is spelled Chiaha by Ranjel anddiscrepancy
in the statements of the distance from ( lofitachiqui to this point. All four authorities
agree that the town was on an island in the river, along which they had been
marchingfor some time (Garcilaso, Ranjel), but while the Elvas narrative makes
the island "two crossbow shot" in length above the town and one league in length
below it, Garcilaso calls it a "great island more than five leagues long." On both
sides of the island the stream was very broad and easily waded (Elvas). Finding
welcome and food for men and horses the Spaniards rested here nearly a month
(June 5-28, Ranjel; twenty-six or twenty-seven days, Biedma; thirty days, Elvas).
In spite of the danger from attack De Soto allowed his men to sleep under trees in
the open air, "because it was very hot and