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152 1795

   "They carry on a trade with Georgia, with deer, otter, and beaver skins.   But the Indians, who supply them, find a more advantageous & sure sale in West Florida; & therefore carry all their skins to Pensacola.   This trade is therefore confined to furs procured by the people of the back country; and these are inconsiderable in number & value.
   "The Cherokees, the Chactaws & Creeks, who are the most numerous and warlike of all the Indian nations, inhabit the borders of Georgia.  Those capable of bearing arms are supposed to amount to the number of twelve thousand, - six thousand of whom are Creeks.   There are about 35,000 Indians altogether in Georgia.  It is said that the Creeks, contrary to the general case, are encreasing in numbers.  Although these people are held in aversion, and endeavours are made to drive them beyond the Mississippi, yet it is allowed on all hands, that in the continual quarrels which they have with the white people on the boundaries, the latter are in the wrong four times out of five.   It is admitted by every body, that there cannot be a more vicious set of people than the whites who dwell on the boundaries:  they rob, murder, and betray the Indians; who, in return, frequently destroy their persecutors, together with their families; and when they perhaps take a dreadful revenge, they only defend themselves against unprovoked attacks:  these Indians are all as good, as generous, and