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of that river; that a Cherokee and the Pidgeon was sent as spies to the shoals of the river, to discover the signs of warring parties of the Creeks that may have had lately crossed the river; and while they were there two Creeks had come to the opposite bank and upon the same errand from their party, who discovered each other; and the Pidgeon then inquired of them from whence they had come and upon what business. The reply was from the Cowetas as messengers of peace; and they were desired to come over, but they refused to cross the river, but told, if they were messengers of peace to leave their guns over there and they would remove their guns to a distance/at distant, so that one need not to be afraid of the others, upon which the Cowetas came over, and told each other the truth of the object of each party, and finally agreed that the respective parties [were] to meet the next day unarmed, and confer together on the subject for establishing firm peace between the respective nations; and it was finally concluded by the warring parties that the respective Kings and Chiefs should have a meeting of the two nations, upon the condition that the Oconee/Occonie river should be the boundary to be observed by the hunting parties, to where the main stream became finall, before either parties of hunters should be allowed to cross the waters after wounded game; and from this circumstance was the origin of the marked tree on the high shoals of the Appalatehees that has been related by tradition that a Creek Man and a Cherokee had met at that place and marked the tree by turning back to back, and that the Cherokee had said to the Creek to go westward to the Great Lick and there the Land Mark of the Cherokee run by there: and that the Creek man said to the Cherokee to go Eastward to Savannah/Sawenookah River, and there the Land Mark of the Creeks run by there - and the heads of the two nations met at last at the great Lick somewhere in the county of Washington in Georgia, at which place Occun, no, sto, toe, and Attah, te, cul, kallah were both present, and the treaty of peace was based on