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soon be in attendance. The assembly moved to the ground. The Chiefs & the People even yet for Mr Currey. At length he appeared. When prepared to begin business, he said Mr Schermerhorn has not arrived from Rome yet; and he could not allow the business to proceed until Schermerhorn & Lieut: Bateman should arrive from Rome. Major Currey asked if Mr Ross objected to opening with prayers? "Certainly not" replied the Principal Chief, "But I wish it to open without delay, for we are overwhelmed with rain & numbers. At length all the parties were assembled & the proceedings commenced. Major Currey & Lieut Bateman were on a platform, as managers, a clerk being at the table with his apparatus. strikeout: 4 or 5 words The Spirit; their native preacher John Huss, -- was then requested to offer up a prayer in strikeout: Cherokee his native language, which being ended, a hymn in Cherokee followed. No sooner was the hymn begun, than the Georgia Guard struck up a distant accompaniment of the drum & fife; -- a sort of hint it seemed to the Indians, that the persuations of the Bible were to be strikeout: follower accompanied by those of the unclear, as they had been towards their fathers in the days gone by. The hymn concluded, Major Currey arose & said