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Xapita, a province near Duahre where pearls are found, is identified with the name of the Sampit River, which flows in an easterly direction to Winyah Bay at Georgetown.
Other provinces under Datha include Tihe, inhabited by a priestly tribe, and Xamunambe.
Arambe, Guacaya, Quohathe, Tanzaca (Tanaca), and Pahoc are additional regions that the Spanish record visiting, where they note the indigenous peoples had dark brown skin.
Swanton suggests that Guacaya may correlate to Waccamaw (a Siouan tribe), and Pahoc to "Back Hooks".
Rudes connects Quohathe with Coweta (a Muscogee (Creek) subtribe); Tanzaca with "Transequa", a village shown on a 1733 map on the Upper Catawba River; and Arambe with the Ilapi of Hernando de Soto (1541), also the Mississippian-culture village called Herape by Juan Pardo (1568), and the later Creek town Hilibi, which had moved farther west.
Inziguanin is described as a nation whose inhabitants have a myth that crocodile-like men had once lived in their land.
Rudes suggests Inziguanin could be a reference to the Shawnee, though they will not be not attested in the southeast until long afterward.