Bringier on the Region of the Mississippi, &c, 35 
except what the United States paid out of their annuity? 
Was there ever one seen sober, where spirituous liquors 
could be got? _Is there any hospitality araongst the Chero- 
kees? No! I will dispense with answering the first ques- 
tions; but I will warn the travellers, who should happen to 
cross their settlement on the Arkansas, to be on their guard 
wherever they incamp; otherwise they are sure to be left 
on foot next morning, unless their horses should be of 7 
ittle consequence. In that case, an officious fellow will of- 
fer himself to go and hunt the horses, sometimes for as much 
as they are worth,* and he will always be sure to find them 
pe thieves he left them under the care of another 
Jherokee, often fifteen and twenty miles out of the way. 
“ in 
Arkansas, are those who have been driven 
away, and have fled from the old nation on the Tennessee 
river, (with whom Iam not acquainted.) However, it is 
notorious that all the Indian tribes in a state of civilization, 
within the limits of the United States, are extremely cor- 
rupted, whilst those under the Spanish iron rod, are mild, 
and possess no other vices, except those inseparable from 
ignorance. GR TE ses ge Bk PEG 
” 
journal, whilst I 
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them. 
