It is evidently correctly translated, for Milfort likewise gives it as "bien aime." It was the title used for any thing held in especial regard, whether for economic or supernatural reasons; and sometimes it was used as western tribes use the word "medicine" at the present day.
The old chiefs and conjurers were called the "beloved old men"; what in the west we would now call the "medicine squaws," were named "the beloved old women." It was often conferred upon the chief dignitaries of the whites in writing to them.
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Hawkins, 37.
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Bartram, 386.

The Uchee town contained at least 1,500 people.
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_Do_.
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