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two ago, and she heard him say that at one time, a Creek woman was very sick, and on starting in the morning was thought to be near her end, and therefore left at the encampment. Her friends wished permission to stop and take care of her, but this favour was denied them, and the poor woman was left to die alone in the dreary at.? in margin desert and be devoured by wild beasts.

___ 28th. Mr. Nave, a white man with a Cherokee family, says that as a company of Cherokee prisoners were about to cross the creek at his house, he heard a horseman say, as he rode up that a certain old Creek woman had failed so as to be unable to walk, and therefore a wagon must stop for her. Soon after, however a foot man, soldier, came up, and all the wagons moved on. He supposes therefore that the old woman had been killed and put out of the way: as he and several others hunted but could find nothing of her. Such an act would not be surprising, because we are unclear informed that as certain soldiers were going with a wagon up Lookout mountain below Willstown, they had a Creek prisoner with them. As the wagon sank in the mud they directed him to assist in some way, but he did not understand their meaning, and therefore a soldier stepped towards him, with the muzzle of his gun forward. The poor Creek touched the gun to turn it from him, when almost instantly five or six balls were shot through his body, and then he was thrown in the mud, from whence the Cherokees took his corpse and buried it. 85