10 CREEKS. 



culty that he was afterwards induced to wash his face, and sit for i? 

 portrait which his friends would be able to recognise. See No. 10. 



12. 



A CREEK BUFFALO DANCE. 



(Painted Aug. 1843.) 



This dance is enacted every year during the season of their busk 

 or green-corn dances ; and the men, women, and children, al' take an 

 active part in the ceremony. They invest themselves with the scalp 

 of the buffalo, with the horns and tail attached, and danc« about in 

 a circle, uttering sounds in imitation of the animal they represent, 

 with their bodies in a half-bent position, supporting iheir weight 

 upon their ball-sticks, which represent the forelegs of tie buffalo. 



13. 



TUSTENUGGEE EMATHLA. 



(Painted June, 1843.) 



" This is a fine-looking man, sis feet and one inch in height, and 

 well proportioned, of manly and martial appearance and great physical 

 strength, and is well calculated to command the respect of a band of 

 savage warriors. He is generally known by tie name of Jim Boy. 

 Tustenuggee means 'warrior;' and Emathla, 'next to the warrior.' 



'' He is and always has been a firm and undeviating friend of the 

 whites : he led a party of seven hundred and seventy-six warriors to 

 Florida, and endeavoured, first as mediator, to induce the Seminoles 

 to abandon the bloody and fruitless contesc in which they were en- 

 gaged, but was unsuccessful. 



" Soon after his arrival at Tampa, he joined the camp of Col. Lane, 

 by whom he was sent, with two hundred of his warriors, to look after 

 the Seminoles. He fell in with a party of the latter, and drove them 

 into a swamp, from which they opened a fire, and wounded several 

 of his men. He was then sent to meet Gov. Call, and arrived at the 

 spot where Gen. Gaines was surrounded, soon after that ofiicer had 

 been relieved. On the following day, he joined Gov. Call, and pro- 

 ceeded to Fort Drane, where the Seminoles, though numerous, re- 

 fused them battle, fled, and were pursued. The Creeks were unable 

 to overtake them ; but the Tennessee horse fell in with them on the 

 following day, and a fight ensued, in which several were killed on 



