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ings with the Creeks, frequently resulting in small 

 local wars, brought on as often by the faithlessness 

 and brutality of the white borderers as by the treach- 

 ery and cruelty of the red. Indeed the Indians were 

 only kept quiet by presents, it being an unhappy 

 feature of the frontier troubles that while lawless 

 whites could not be prevented from encroaching on 

 the Indian lands, the Indians in turn could only be 

 kept at peace with the law-abiding by being bribed. 49 



Only a small number of warriors invaded Georgia. 

 Nevertheless they greatly harassed the settlers, cap- 

 turing several families and fighting two or three 

 skirmishes with varying results. 50 By the middle 

 of July, Colonel Samuel Jack 51 took the field with 

 a force of two hundred rangers, all young men, 

 the old and infirm being left to guard the forts. 

 The Indians fled as soon as he had embodied his 

 troops, and toward the end of the month he marched 

 against one or two of their small lower towns, 

 which he burned, destroying the grain and driving 

 off the cattle. No resistance was offered, and he 

 did not lose a man. 



The heaviest blow fell on South Carolina, where 

 the Cherokees were led by Cameron himself, accom- 



49 Do., sth Series, I, 7, and III, 649. The Georgia frontiers- 

 men seem to have been peculiarly brutal in their conduct to 

 the Creeks ; but the latter were themselves very little, if at 

 all, better. 



50 McCall ; five families captured ; in three skirmishes eight 

 whites were killed and six Indian scalps taken. 



51 McCall ; the Tennessee historians erroneously assign the 

 command to Col. McBury. 



