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prlution from smoke. For the same reason also hunted would their moccasins & leggings over the fire. Some Cherokees give the following amount of their saved fire. After their arrival on this continent, from beyond the sea, they sent back for some of their sacred fire, in which existed [there?], an [unclear] inttilgent agent in the form of a man. Tuowingly a with of this fire conveyed over the water by a spider which wrapped it in her web. When they got this fire, they kept it always in their [unclear] house, that is, in a hob of save dug ember the council house. (Others say this fire originally came down from heaven.) Their council [unclear] was eventually taken by their enemies & destroyed, but they suppose the fire is still in the hole [unclear] ground where they left it. Having lost this sacred fire, they endearended to remelry the evil by making new fire. Making two wives of [unclear] [unclear] they put a would sallow gold now, between them & then rubbed them swiftly against each other till the [unclear] & wood took fire. Tmong the enecks & [unclear] among ancient Cherokees, all the fire was eating wished every year, about the commencement of autumn & new fire made. Tmong the chereokees new fire was made at the commencement, & used during every war, or hunting expedition. Also when a person died, all the [unc;ear] wood and fire were taken out of the house, & new fire made as above. Their mayers are often addressed to the fire.