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During the Creek war he fought with the whites against the 

 Creeks, and at the battle of Horse Shoe received several wounds. He 

 is now about 88 years of age, and receives a pension from the United 

 States for his services during that war : he is still in the full en- 

 joyment of all his faculties, having ridden thirty miles on horseback 

 to sit for the portrait now exhibited. 



24. 



OH-TAH-NEE-UN-TAH, oa CATCHER. 



(Painted 1844.) 



A Cherokee Warrior. 



25. 



CHARLES McINTOSH. 



(Painted 1842.) 



A Cherokee half-breed, about twenty-three years of age, little 

 known among his people until December, 1842, He then distinguished 

 himself by killing a man upon the Prairies, by the name of Merrett, 

 an escaped convict from the jail at Van Buren, Arkansas, who with 

 his brother was under sentence to the State Prison, had escaped, and 

 fled to the Prairies, where they carried on a sort of land piracy, rob- 

 bing and murdering all travellers whom chance threw into their 

 power. 



26. 



WE-CHA-LAH-NAE-HE, or THE SPIRIT. 



(Painted 1844.) 



Commonly called John Huss. A regular ordained minister of the 

 Presbyterian denomination, and speaks no English. He is a very 

 pious and good man. The following letter, written in the Cherokee 

 language, which I received from him, will give the reader some idea 

 of the situation of the people under his pastoral charge. 



Tah-le-quah, Cherokee N-»tjon; 



January 30^/t, 1844. 



My Friend : — You wish that I should tell you something about 



the Cherokees living on Honey Creek. I suppose you wish to know 



whether the people arc acting as a civilized or uncivilized people 



I am very glad to hear that you wish to know something about tho 



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