Bringier onthe Region of the Mississippi, &e. 41 
three months after, all the Cherokees abandoned their 
farms, (and some were very good mn: their cattle, and oth- 
er property and removed, some to. White river, and the 
greatest part to the Arkansas. ‘Those that fixed on the White 
river have since removed to the Arkansas, where they 
occupy the river on both sides, from point Renou, (four 
hundred miles up the river,) to the Big Mulberry, where the 
Osage line crosses: departing from the fine prairie on the . 
— river, thie land eo SEEUPDY. is far the best on the 
cathy 
x 
“Anthracite, 
On the. nor bay a little above the pine bayou, (five 
hundred 1 ‘miles irom bod of 
blind coal samedierely on the bank of ke: Arkansas. see i 
equal in quality to the Pee coal; it is ney far the best I 
ave seen in the United States. 
About one hundred 4 twenty miles ethno this sane 
there are some United States troops, who stopped there a 
few months since, and probably they will take a station at 
the mouth of the frog bayou, which affords a fine place for 
a seria between ie heer, and Cherokees. 
Ch Arkansas, are about twelve 
ngtaiend. and. fifty. They have phate about six thou- 
-sand acres of land with the fire which they have set in 
the thick canes; but they do not cultivate more than two 
thousand five hundred acres, and that very badly. They 
raise no other staple except a few sweet potatoes and pump- 
kins, although = mee eaniene a Aaa soeatiee of | | 
nsas,_ 
centious, and the men extremely lazy. The m 
dress with what we call a morning gown, or a long hunting 
a pair of gS, a ‘eilics: ora white ties aad a shovil 
d their heads he manner of a turban. The 
it women. ey are 
ze “squaws ; but they de 
