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hung up in the Georgia office, in Westminster, London. Upon 

 Dr. D. G. Brinton's request, Mr. Nicholas Triibner sought to trace 

 this pictured relic in the London offices, but without success. 

 The text of the narrative has been fortunately preserved in a Ger- 

 man translation, and this is far more important for us than the 

 preservation of the painted buffaloskin would be. It is found in 

 a collection of German pamphlets treating of American colonies, 

 published from 1735 to 1741. The title of the first volume runs 

 as foUow'S : Ausfuehrllchc Nachricht von dcr^ Saltzbiirgischcti 

 Emigranten^ die sich in America niedergelassen haben. Wo- 

 rin, etc. etc.; heraiisgegeben von Samuel Urlsperger., Halle., 

 MDCCXXXV. Our legend is contained on pp. 869 to 876 of this 

 Jirst volume, and forms the sixth chapter of Von Reek's '"Jour- 

 nal," the title of which runs as follows: Uerrn Philipp Georg 

 Fric drichs von Reck Dia7-iu77i von Seiner Reise nach Geor- 

 gien im. Jahr 1735. This officer had been the commissary of the 

 German Protestant emigrants, whom religious persecution had 

 expelled from Salzburg, the capital of Styria, their native city. 



After Dr. Brinton had discovered the legend in that collection 

 and studied it, he prepared a publication on the subject, which 

 appeared in the " New York Historical Magazine," Morrisania, 

 April, 1870, under the title, "The National Legend of the Chi hta- 

 Muskokee Tribes," 13 pp. This article also embodies a shorter 

 narrative of the same legend, preserved by B. Hawkins in his 

 " Sketch." pp. 81-83, which is instructive in many respects, and 

 locates the place where the Kasi'hta, Kawita and Chicasa "origi- 

 nated," w^est of the Mississippi river. In translating Von Reek's 

 account into English, Dr. Brinton made some slight mistakes, to 

 be indicated below. His English rendering is reproduced in this 

 volume and formed the basis for the retranslation of the legend 

 into the Creek and the Hitchiti dialects, which was satisfactorily 

 accomplished by my friend. Judge Geo. W. Stidham, who is a 

 born Hitchiti Indian, now residing in Eufaula, Indian Territory. 

 I have subsequently revised the Indian texts, and especially the 

 glossaries, with the aid of other Indians familiar with the same 

 dialects. 



