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10 - crossed out 26 their travels were obliged, at night, to lie down on the naked ground, in the open air, exposed to wind and rain, and compeled almost, to herd together like droves of swine. By this treatment many of them have already been reduced to sickness, and are hastening to a premature grave. Driving the Indians under such circumstances and then forcing them, to overflowing, into filthy boats, in this hot season, -- landing them at Little Rock, a most sickly place, to wait other means of conveyance two hundred miles up the Arkansas river, or to land them in the heat of summer, to remain any where on that sickly river, is only a most expensive and painful method of putting the poor people to death. The first company sent down the river, including those dear trembling doves who spent a night at our house, were, it seems, literally crammed into the boat. Where was a flat bottomed boat about one hundred feet long, twenty feet wide, and two stories high, fastened to an old steam boat. This was so filled unclear words scratched out that the timber, it is said began to crack, and give way, and the boat itself unclear words lined out was on the point of sinking. Some of the Cherokees were called out, which this boat was lashed to the ste4am boat, and some small boats brought forward to take in those who had been recalled. Who would think of crowding men, women, and children, old and young, sick and well into a boat together, with little, if any more room, or accommodations than would be allowed to swine taken to market. In that company were some of our beloved brothers and sisters. But the