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gha? hi?a?sgini tsa:li udho:hl(a)sv ale 



now this. In particular Tsa : li he borrowed it and 



gvwayohu : s^ : Iv uni:tsadhv '^°1 uni:hne'i*gwo:tsv tsii'di 



been lost by him, they many they increased to put them down (hard), he 



iyanv : do ido : hi : dv 



month let you (pi.) and me extend it 



gesv:i $17 20 ani:se:u(i)si niga:ga uni:hne'i'gwo:tsv 



it is $17.20 cents then it totals they increased 



igv:yi:yi $13 ade:lv gesV:gl narsgihno: 6 



first $13 money it was that, and 6 



iyanv: do ga:ghahnv:hi niga:hl(i)sda nigd:dv 



months set, it it just became all 



datse : [hi]sdi : sgv '^"i uni:hne'i'gwo:tsv:hi unihn6:tsvdi '"' 



betag renewed by him, they the increased, they to tell him, they 



$18 15 ani:se:ii(i)si wige : s[di : ]lv : di 



$lg.l5 cents to put them (flex.) in over there, you (dual) 



FREE TRANSLATION 



Now! Upon what Tsadi borrowed and upon what he lost the 

 interest he is to pay has greatly increased. Let us extend the time 

 for a month. It has increased from what at first was $13.00 to $17.20. 

 It was set at 6 months. In renewing it all, they are to tell him that 

 what the two have to repay wiU increase to $18.15. 



COMMENTARY 



The above mentioned Tsaili is indubitably the same individual as 

 the unreliable treasurer of previous documents. One doubts that he 

 was still incumbent when he was granted the loan under discussion, 

 but nevertheless he appears to have been considered innocent of 

 criminal intent: after all, he was granted a loan, either by the 

 Wolf town Council or the Gadu:g{i), and a very substantial one at 

 that by Wolftown standards. Very likely a part of the money 

 borrowed was for the purpose of restoring that lost. At any rate, 

 on November 18 Tsadi was much in arrears, and we see that a 

 dispensation was made. The 'what the two have to repay' indicates 

 that Tsadi and some other person, perhaps the "old women" {Tsadi's 

 mother?) mentioned in the preceding document, were considered to 

 be jointly responsible for the missing sum of money. 



From many documents in The Inoli Letters we receive the impres- 

 sion that the Eastern Cherokee were hard pressed to obtain ready 

 cash. They traded such products as pelts, herbs, dried fruit, feathers, 

 and wool at the WiU Thomas post at Qualla for coffee, sugar, calico, 

 and other commodities that they could not produce (RusseU, MS., 1956, p. 



3' The second syllable is erroneously written ne. 

 lo The second syllable is erroneously written tsa. 

 " The second syllable is erroneously written na. 



