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faces painted with vermillion, and their whole demeanour disgusting & disorderly; -- rushing at times among the crowd stopping & challenging the people to fight. Then, to distract attention, a ball play was attempted to be got up, but of that no heed was taken. These scenes passed in full view of the Commissioners. Females were sent into the multitude with whiskey, hoping thus to create tumult, but the people were on their guard. The Georgia Guard would mount & gallop round their limits to the Guard house; raising yells & mock pursuits, in one of which, an strikeout: 2 words Emigrant got strikeout: 2 words within their lines & was strikeout: several words put under guard by mistake for an Eastern strikeout Cherokee; and attempts were made to decoy others, but they were too wary. * left margin note: See opposite The unruly Emigrants at a Spring of Water in front of Ridges were bathing naked in the broad glare of day & of the crowd! The strikeout Indians withstood any temptation. The great mass of them strikeout retired the same night to the same branch on which they had encamped the night before -- two miles from the election ground; more for the convenience of their horses, than themselves, strikeout plenty of grass being at hand there. John Ridge proposed to Mr Ross that he should go to his house strikeout: 2 words & pass the night: he & his father would remain with the crowd, but his strikeout: 3 words wife, would be very glad