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this edifice being captured by enemies and destroyed, the fire was lost; - although many suppose it only sunk deeper in the ground to avoid unhallowed eyes, and still exists there. Since its disappearance, new fire has always been made at particular times and with various ceremonies, which are mentioned under their appropriate heads elsewhere in our work; and are continued to the present hour. It is also stated among the older Cherokee that the Creator, supposed in this case to mean Te, ho, waah, - who supervises the affairs of the universe, and whose abode is in the center of the sky, immediately overhead, - - in the beginning directed certain lines to point upon the earth, which WhiteMen express by the words North, South, East and West. To each of these respective points, he sent newly created beings of a different colour. In the north, was placed the Blue Man; - in the west, - the region which is called the region of the setting sun, - the Black Man was placed, who is called Ewe, kah, waisk, hee, - The Fearless; - and to the south was sent the White Man, - the man of purity and peace; - but the first, and the original of all, was the red man, - he was placed in the east (supposed to signify the sun). - These four first