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They relate a story in Knoxville of a Trial under the Treaty of 1791, where a Cherokee head shot a man who was ploughing in a field. the offender was demanded and it in said a creek was given up by the Cherokees to BLANK justice. The prisoner was brought up for trial. One Captain Carey, a Cherokee interpreter, was called upon to explain. Carey did not understand a word of Creek, but it was not for him to disclose the secret of a tribe with whom he was friendly, so he let the court believe that the prisoner talked good Cherokee. What is the man's name, asked the Judge. Hibringa Highgho, replied the interpreter. And what, continued the Judge, may Hibringa Highgo, mean in English? It means, please your Honor, dance upon nothing.