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or on horses. They make barely a sufficiency of corn for their support. They have no fences around their fields & only a fence of three poles tied to upright stakes for their potatoes. The land up the river above the fields is fine for culture - oak, hickory, blackjack, & pine. The people of Cussetuh associate more than any other Indians with their white neighbors - & without obtaining any advantage from it. They know not the season for planting, or, if they do, they never avail themselves of what they know, as they always plant a month too late. This town, with its villages, is the largest in the Lower Creeks. The people are & have been friendly to white people, & are fond of visiting them. The old chiefs are very orderly men & much occupied in governing their young men; who are rude & disorderly in proportion to the intercourse they have had with the white people. They frequently complain of the intercourse of their young people with the white people on the frontiers as being very prejudicial to their morals; that they are more rude, more inclined to be tricky, & more difficult to govern than those who do not associate with them. The settlements belonging to the town are spread-out on the right side of the river. Here they appear to be industrious, - have forked fences - & more land inclosed than they can cultivate. One of them deserves to be particularly named - Mic E,mautfau?. This old chief has with his own labour made a good worm