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18 buying vegetable[s] from the Cherokees such as they could spare from their familys, and the intercourse began to be more restricted/restricked on both sides, tho' distresses of the garrison began to increase/increate, and during these occurrences, Occunnostotoe, took the rash resolution to take revenge on the Garrison at Keowee, for confining his Warriors, as he knew no other mode of warfare than/then the custom among red people. and with select men went to the bank of the river opposite of where the Garrison stood, and called to the Fort that he wished to have a conference with the officers across the river; and some of his men he had placed them under the bank in ambush, and when the officers and interpreter came to the opposite bank, and while talking across to each other, the men fired on the officers, and one was mortally wounded, and died shortly after, and in consequence of which, the Cherokees that was confined as Hostages were massacred excepting one or two who leaped over the stockade fort - and made their escape and on the return of Occunnostotoe to his own part of the nation on the Tenessee, the animosity rose to considerable rage with the Fort Loudon officers, whose situation became very desperate, together [with] the want of provision for the supply of the soldiers, which continued to increase their distress- Still, however, there were/was no lives taken by either side, when an armistice was concluded between the officers of that fort and Occunnostotoe and his warriors, and the conditions of which, as represented, that Fort Loudon was to be [e]vacuated in peace by the officers and soldiers with their baggage, and permitted to pass through the nation peacefully to for Keo, wee; and by the armistice being/been made, the two companies of soldiers prepared to [have e]vacuated Fort Loudon, but before this took place, it is represented that a secret council had been held by the warriors in that part of the nation and determined to cut off the troops when the[y] [e]vacutated the fort, and accordingly the troops marched from there as far as Cane/Kane Creek, near the bank of the Big Tellico River, and the encampment was attacked by day break, but no resistance