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20 36 July 12th A young man came with a measure to make a coffin for the child of sister Jane Short arrow. He? was an only son, about twelve months old. Before night the bereaved mother also arrived, with the company of mourners. The corpse was swung under a pole by means of a sheet, and carried by two men, and laid out in a shade near the grave yard, till preparations were made for burying. When the corpse was laid in a coffin, & deposited in the silent grave. Samuel J. Mills, a Cherokee Christian addressed the assembly in his own language, and then offered up a prayer to the great Disposer of all events.

The whole scene was affecting. The recollection of the father and six or seven children, mostly small, taken as prisoners of war, in time of peace, and driven in a burning atmosphere to a sickly clime, suffering greater harms than even African slaves, because in the case of these latter self interest prompts to the preservation of life. Many of the poor Cherokees might now take the words from the mouth of the weeping prophet, and say several words scratched out "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." (Sam 1:12)

July 13th A gentleman from near Maryville called to spend the night. He says that as he passed the agency, he was informed of a Cherokee woman who had died on the bank of Hiwasse river. smudge She had been driven, with many others, from the valley towns, but on the way was seized with the

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