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and that he could get no medicine. I endeavoured to find the physician but he had gone out. I called on an officer in the camps, stated the case of the old man, and urged the necessity of the most punctual attention of physicians, in order to secure the confidence of the Cherokees, and induce them to take medicine willingly, referring, at the same time to a report among the Indians, that one of the physicians was killing the people. This gentleman replied that though he was sorry to say it, yet it was a fact, that one of the physicians, employed at the camps was merely a dentis, and made no pretensions to the knowledge of medicine.