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which is still found some traces of it among the present race, as in the handling dead persons, and the monthly times with women, and the only difference of what is in holy writ & the tradition, is the nights instead of days, and the evening bath & the other the morning, - beside others recorded in the bible, from which there is some grounds to suppose our ancestors may have been being neighbors to the children of Israel, and by their intercourse with them may have obtained the knowledge what is recited above; and likely [a] great deal more, which may be forgotten after they were stripped of their offices; and it is also not unlikely that after their office were disannull by the nation, they might have shifted their profession to that of the Jugglers, and Doctors, for it is found in our days that the Jugglers and Doctors profess? more knowledge of the Traditions of this nation than any others among the present race. etc etc etc etc. I am

Respectfully yours, Ch: R. Hicks

John Ross Port Master and President of the National Committee at Rossirtte? Cherokee Nation