Indians speaking the Creek language lived in the south of the peninsula as early as the sixteenth century. This fact is fully proved by the local names and by other terms used in these parts transmitted by Fontanedo (in 1559, cf. Calusa): seletega! "_run hither!_" now pronounced silítiga, silítka, abbrev. from isilítka; isilítkäs _I run away_, lit., I carry myself away, off; lítkäs _I am running_. Silítiga is now used as a personal name among the Creeks.