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The history of Kentucky and the Northwest has now been traced from the date of the Cherokee war to the close of the Revolution.

But the Chickamaugas refused to make peace, and in their frequent and harassing forays they were from time to time joined by parties of young braves from all the Cherokee towns that were beyond the reach of Robertson's influencethat is, by all save those in the neighborhood of Chota.

] This time Cameron himself marched into the Cherokee country with his company of fifty tories, brutal outlaws, accustomed to savage warfare, and ready to take part in the worst Indian outrages.

The ensuing Cherokee war was due not to the misdeeds of the settlersthough doubtless a few lawless whites occasionally did wrong to their red neighborsbut to the short-sighted treachery and ferocity of the savages themselves, and especially to the machinations of the tories and British agents.

It seems certain that the mountaineers were, as a rule, more formidable fighters than the lowland militia, beside or against whom they battled; and they formed the main strength of the attacking party that left the camp at the Cherokee ford before sunset on the 17th.

Sevier's Cherokee Campaigns.

He was on the great war trace of the southern Indians, and his scouts speedily brought him word that they had exchanged shots with a Cherokee war party, on its way to the settlements, and not far distant on the other side of the river.

This last estimate is just about ten times too strong, for the only country visited was that of the Overhill Cherokees, and the outside limit for the population of the devastated territory would be some four thousand souls, or a third of the Cherokee tribe, which all told numbered perhaps twelve thousand people.

The length of the journey, the absolutely untravelled nature of the country, which no white man, save perhaps an occasional wandering hunter, had ever before traversed, the extreme difficulty of the route over the wooded, cliff-scarred mountains, and the strength of the Cherokee towns that were to be attacked, all combined to render the feat most difficult.

Thus Major Joseph Martin, while an Indian agent, tried to speculate in Cherokee lands.

When the Americans reconquered the southern States many tories fled to the Cherokee towns, and incited the savages to hostility; and the outlying settlements of the borderers were being burned and plundered by members of the very tribes whose chiefs were at the same time writing to the governor to complain of the white encroachments.

Red Bird, the Cherokee, quaint "talk" of.

Scolacutta, Cherokee chief.

Watts, John, Cherokee chief; attacks Buchanan's Station; wounded; speech.

From them shall drink the Cherokee, Faint with the hot and dusty chase; No more from German vintage, ye Shall bear them home, in leaf-crowned grace.