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fer with his people. But then, new expectations were encited, and the matter was brought before congress. And which the delegation were indulging hopes of saving the people, the order was given to general Scott to proceed without delay to take the poor Indians prisoners and have them hurried away according to the treaty.

[[The remaining paragraphs are X'd out}} Mr. Ross having been detained at Washington, as above stated, was afterwards reproached for not having been at home to suffer with his people. But why should I delight in tracing the lineaments of this dark picture any farther.

July 20. Went to the camps. On the side of the hill, in sight of the encampment, lay a very old man apparently at the point of death. He had long been sick with the dysentery. He had only a small piece of an old blanket under him, and nothing over his body, except a hand kerchief drawn about his middle, and no shelter but a few bushes, and a piece of bark about three feet long. I enquired if he had any medicines, or any one to take care of him. He replied that a certain person came to him sometimes, but not often, and that he could get no medicine. I endeavoured to find the physician but he had rode out. I called on an officer in the camps, stated the care 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 bad them to take medicine willingly, referring at the same time to unclear -lined out report insulating among the Indians that one of the physicians was killing the people. The officer replied that though he was sorry to say it, yet it was a fact that one of the Doctors told him, that he was merely a dentis, and did not understand medicine