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They crossed it, goin<»^ toward the sunrise, and came to a peo- 

 ple and a town named Coosaw, Here they remained fonr years. 

 The Coosaws complained that they were preyed upon by a wild 

 beast, which they called man-eater or lion, which lived in a rock. 



The Cussitaws said they would try to kill the beast. They 

 digged a pit and stretched over it a net made of hickory-bark. 

 They then laid a number of branches, crosswise^ so that the lion 

 could not follow them, and, going to the place where he lay, they 

 threw a rattle into his den. The lion rushed forth in great anger, 

 and pursued them through the branches. Then they thought it 

 better that one should die rather than ^11 ; so they took a mother- 

 less child, and threw it before the lion as he came near the pit. 

 The lion rushed at it and fell in the pit, over which they threw 

 the net, and killed him with blazing pine-wood. His bones, 

 however, they keep to this day ; on one side, they are red ; on the 

 other, blue. 



The lion used to come every seventh day to kill the people ; 

 therefore, they remained there seven days after they had killed 

 him. In remembrance of him, when they prepare for War, they 

 fast six days and start on the seventh. If they take his bones with 

 them, they have good fortune. 



After four years they left the Coosaws, and came to a river 

 which they called Nowphawpe, now Callasi-hutche. There they 

 tarried two years ; and, as they had no corn, they lived on roots 

 and fishes, and made bows, pointing the arrows with beaver teeth 

 and flint-stones, and for knives they used split canes. 



They left this place, and came to a creek called Wattoola- 

 hawka-hutche, Whooping-creek, so called from the whooping of 

 cranes, a great many being there ; they slept there one night. 

 They next came to a river in which there was a waterfall ; this 

 they named the Owatunka river. The next day they reached 

 another river, which they called the Aphoosa pheeskaw. 



The following day they crossed it, and came to a high moun- 

 tain, where were people who, they believed, were the same who 

 made the white path. They, therefore, made white arrows and 



