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insulting cry must be obeyed. "Fly like a timorous, trembling dove, to distant woods and mountains fly."

The second company I had the painful pleasure to see driven down to the river. The camps were nearly five miles from the river. This company consisted of about fifteen hundred, though some returned again to the camps as there were not boats sufficient to take them all. These were driven along the bank of the river, and guarded all night. There, in the open air, they could stand, like so many horses, or lie down like swine, on the naked ground. On returning from this melancholy scene, I went to the camps, and though I could not pass the guard, yet I had the pleasure of seeing our dear brother Epenetus, and of bidding him good evening, though I little thought for the last time in his native land.

June 17. Wi loo ka brought us a message from Epenetus,. She saw him on the bank of the river as he and his family were about to be thrust into a boat. Epenetus told Wi loo ka to tell us he wished to see us, but could not, as he could obtain no assistance with regard to getting his son. She therefore wished us to take care of him and take him with us, should we go to the west; and also to sell or send his horse left with us. He had at home a yoke of oxen, a number of cows, and other creatures, but these together with all his household furniture, and bedding are lost forever, probably, to him. Thus, our dear Cherokees were stripped of all their little