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scribbles 44 4. They can be stationary but a short time. The officers are ordering all to their own detachments, and very shortly all must set out on a journey of seven or eight hundred miles; and should they live to accomplish that journey, they will find themselves in a sickly country, destitute, mostly of house & home and of property to help themselves with. Thus the prospect before them is overwhelming. There seems to be no place, nor means nor time for the recovery of any who are now sick. Their death of course seems almost inevitable, unless prevented by a myracle of money.

Sept 8. A few Cherokees called on their way from the agency. I suppose they had been to the agency for money. It is said by some, that in this, they acknowledge the treaty. But the case stands thus, the principal chief, on returning from Washington, by permission from General Scott, convened the national council. They took into consideration the present state of the people. They had been taken prisoners by United States troops, and torn from all their possessions. Now the question arose whether they should leave them so, or whether they should charge the United with the value of their possessions. This latter course was adopted, and it was resolved that each Cherokee might bring a claim against the United States to the amount of what he supposed his possessions were worth. And by order of General Scott, these claims were paid. In this however, there is no reference to the treaty, nor acknowledgment of it, in any manner whatever. The principal chief, however, and how many others I cannot tell, bring no claim, and receives nothing for all his possessions.

Oct. 4. Brother Hawk, and his family were brought to the encampment. He seems just gone with the consumption. He was taken from the waggon, and laid on the ground, having a bed under him. A tent was formed of two bed quilts to keep the night air from him.

Oct. 12. Visited the Hawk. He thinks he shall not live long, --