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Tobacco, or old tobacco so much used by the ancient Cherokees, was a weed growing in the woods, having a leaf shaped very much like that of Basswood. A powder was made of the leaves of this which they sprinkled on the fire when the sacrifice was burning.

 Red paint was made by burning a soft red stone and then pounding it; and sometimes a kind of yellow dirt when burnt, became red. Red ointment was doubtless made by mixing one of the above ingredients with deers tallow.  White paint was made of white clay, and white ointment with which the priests were anointed was made of this white clay mixed with deers tallow. _______________
Salt they obtained as follows, viz. the moss growing in the bottom of creeks & rivers, was taken, - dried, - burnt to ashes, and then the ashes were washed, and the lie (sic: lye) boiled down to the consistency of bar soap. This was used for preserving meat and all the purposes of salt. _____
 Soap, sometimes simple lie (sic: lye) was used for washing; but when it could be obtained, a certain large root (the weed is called Se li goi yi) was pounded, and put in the

lie (sic: lye), which caused it to foam, and rendered it excellent for cleansing clothes. _______________________________________________________

 Among the Cherokees anciently, as among the Creeks a girl was not considered marriageable to after her first separation. If a young man fell in love with her previous to that

period he spake for her to her parents, & if they gave permission, he afterwards took his venison &c to her, as if indeed his wife, and should she be unfaithful she would be treated as an adulteress, & not as a single woman, though he had not lived with her as his wife.