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interpreter. "By her assistance, says history, he summoned a general meeting of the Chiefs, to hold a Congress with him at Savannah, in order to procure their consent to the peaceable settlement of his colony - fifty chiefs were present." After Oglethorpe represented the power and wealth of Great Britain & the benefits that would arise to the Indians from a connection and friendship with them, he went on to say, "as they had plenty of lands, he hoped they would freely resign a share of them to his people who were come among them for their benefit & instruction. After having distributed some presents, which must always attend a proposal of friendship & peace, an agreement was made." This cannot be misunderstood. The Cherokees living contiguous to South Carolina, their intercourse of treaty & trade