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gin a noise and warn the chickens and other tame 

 fowls. 



Of the Cherokees, who live to the west of South and 

 North Carolina, there came at this time a party, men, 

 women, and children, to Charleston, on affairs of their 

 nation. Two boys of 14-15 years gave in the street 

 an exhibition of their skill with the bow. At 16-18 

 paces they hardly ever missed copper pennies often set 

 up for them as reward by the spectators. Their 

 arrows were reeds, hardened by fire at the end or 

 half-burnt, the feather taken from the wild turkey. 

 The bows very simple, with a thong made of buffalo- 

 gut. 



In South Carolina, on the river Wateree beyond 

 Camden, there are still living a few families of the 

 Catawba tribe ; they number about 7080 warriors or 

 arms-bearing men. By treaty they are confined to a 

 district of 12 square miles as hunting-range, this lying 

 in the midst of a settled and farmed country. At the 

 present time they are living peaceably and quietly with 

 their neighbors ; but before this territory, for which 

 they had shown a great preference, was given over to 

 them by an express statute, there had been incessant 

 conflict between them and the planters, and the plan- 

 ters were generally the aggressors, liking to hunt and 

 fish in the Indians' territory, and having their eye on 

 the land. Some 15 years ago these Catawbas, few as 

 they were, stood up in regular battle against the Caro- 

 linians, and fought with much order and determina- 

 tion. The Carolina militia, which had been called out, 

 could hardly be held in unbroken line by the most 

 vehement exhortations of their officers, and it was only 

 after a long and stubborn fight that the Catawbas gave 



