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81 P. 16. 83 was the game. A unclear had previously been made round the ball ground to notify spectators how fast they might approach ( tno? this sheet). When victory was declared, on either side, the spectators with shouts of applause, & in almost every way possible extolled the victors | On these occasions the spectators were clothed in their richest & gayest attire.

On their return home, the players observed nearly the same order, as when they came?, all keeping together.
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With regard to the all night dances, as kept up among the loose Cherokees at the present^day, they are polluted & polluting. They evidently are not of Indian origin, because although the Indians performed the same dances, yet wives, anciently followed their own husband, & single females their own brothers, or near relatives, with whom it could be de? to have unlawful intensions [sic]. Husbands were not separated from their wives as at the present day. The Cherokees were omes, evidently, as modest and urenend in their dances as the Creeks, but they have been corrupted by the infidel sentiments, and shameful practices of abandoned white men.