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they would enter into conversations about the works of the white men. The Bark thought the most wonderful thing they did was the writing down of what was passing in their minds so that it would keep upon paper after word scratched out it had gone out of their minds. George Gist would often remark that he saw nothing in it so very wonderful & difficult. One day he went so far as to declare that he was of opinion he could word scratched out find out a way by which the Cherokee could word scratched out find out a way by which the Cherokee could word scratched out detain and communicate their ideas just as well as the white people could. He said he had heard that in former times there was a man named Moses, who was the first man that wrote; and he wrote by word scratched out only making marks on stone, thus --- upon which, George Gist would take a scrap of paper, and draw lines on it with a pencil, to show how it was that Moses had word scratched out written upon the stone.

      //The Indians were very much excited while The Bark was repeating this. In some of his pauses, for the interpreter to explain, one would exclaim ---
      Ah - yes -- that happened that way -- yonder -- 
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