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159 309 Oostenahlee, where it empties into the Conesauga. It was added that there were women with the fugitives. An Indian by the name of the Fox lived near there. The Fox called at the house of the principal chief just before the last Council and presently after this affair. I remember his arriving in the night, at Red Clay and sleeping in the house for the negroes; and his coming in the next morning and holding a long conversation with Mr. Ross, from which Mr. Ross repeated to me many of the particulars which I have here detailed.

Tepe Half Breed, who lives a few miles below the Fox, came up to see him. He had been spying silently over the Woodlands where the Swimmer and the Duck were reported to be concealed. He had found some women thereabout and purchased from hogs from them. He questioned the Fox warily and indirectly after peering around all day, at night crossed the river and went homeward. The Fox had suspicions of something in the wind. He stole upon the track of Half Breed. He found hoof prints of horses upon the paths all around the house of Half Breed. He