Throughout these years the Spaniards thus secretly supplied the Creeks with the means of waging war on the Americans, claiming all the time that the Creeks were their vassals and that the land occupied by the southern Indians generally belonged to Spain and not to the United States.

One thing was beautiful: the creek was a perfect contrast to the turbid Colorado; its waters were as clear and bright as crystal.

This creek Sturt named Eyre's Creek, and it was an important discovery in the drainage system of the region that he was then traversing.

Creeks, so called by the English, because their country lies chiefly among rivers, which the American English call "creeks;" but the real name is Musogees.

Deep Creek was his first port of call, after his first half-day at home.

Mud Creek, and Jack's Corner, and Shingle Hollow are doubtless appropriate names compared to some.

Kittewan Creek is no place in particular, but near it are two old plantations that historians and story-writers have talked a good deal about.

Now, the Creek is a mere streamlet, and the flow of the tide is restricted to its mouth.

Forced to retreat from the dry country west of the Thomson, he probably followed that river to its head, and crossing the main watershed regained and re-pursued his track of 1845, as far as the Roper, of which river Elsey Creek is a tributary.

It seemed as though a part of the Pacific Ocean had been scooped up and dropped on them, and in half an hour the creek was a swollen torrent.

[Illustration] Bear Creek Over the second range of hills that shut in San Francisco Bay on the east is a delightful little trout brook known as Bear Creek.

Menomme creek is a little stream which is not shown on maps.

Sour Creek was a blur and a twinkle of glass in the distance.

"The creek isn't half a mile at its broadest.

Hidden Creek was not a resort for ladies: and so signal an event as the appearance of a lady, a young lady, a pretty young lady, demanded considerable effort.

"Always heard tell how Sour Creek was a fine town

Here and there throughout its length are little shallow stretches which show a golden braid down the centre like any peaceful meadow brook where children may with safety float their little boats, but Black Creek, with its precipitous holes, is no safe companion for any living creature that has not webbed toes or a guardian angel.

Telegraph Creek is the head of steamer navigation on the Stikine River and is about 150 miles from Teslin Lake.

RECEPTION Eppes Creek was the most remote and isolated of all our James River harbours.

A little lean-to against the main shack served as a stable; the creek down the hillside was the watering trough.

"That winding creek beyond it is the Jordan.

"Although the Creeks were my enemies, I could not help admiring them.

The Creeks were the worst offenders in point of numbers, but the Lower Cherokees from the Chickamauga towns did most harm according to their power.

The rapid successes of the royal armies in the southern States had turned the Creeks into open antagonists of the Americans, and their war parties were sent out in quick succession, the British agents keeping alive the alliance by a continued series of giftsfor the Creeks were a venal, fickle race whose friendship could not otherwise be permanently kept.

The few white inhabitants were subjects of the King of Spain, and lived under Spanish law; the Creeks and Choctaws were his subsidized allies; and he held the country by right of conquest.