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14 - crossed out 30 answer that he would defer the movement till the first of September, on condition that the chiefs would pledge themselves to prevent the people from wandering far away from the plains of encampment, preserve good order among them, and assist in getting off at the specified time, or to this effect. The chiefs readily complied with these conditions. The chiefs having assumed the responsibility of keeping the people in prescribed limits and in good order, the guards were withdrawn, and the people were allowed to pitch their tents where they pleased in the neighbourhood of the general encampments.

While at the camps today one company of Cherokee prisoners were brought in, and on my return I met two other companies on their way. In one of the wagons connected with these was an old man supposed to be a hundred and twenty or thirty years old. At first, being left by his friends, who in a fright, ran to the woods, was also left by the soldiers, in his cabin, to the mercy of any who might see him. It is said, he was almost starved, when some white children discovered him, and carried him food. This old man, together with his wife who had been previously taken to the camps we had brought to our house that we might enjoy the pleasure of comforting them in this season of general distress.

June 27. Our sister Patsey and her husband visited us from the camps. She says that one of the soldiers who drove them to Ross landing, assisted also in driving a company of Creeks to the west a year or 84