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examined, said, "Run home as hard as you can! I will remain here 

 and stand near the fire." 



So the whole Cherokee party ran home as hard as it could. 



When the Ani:gh(i)sgi saw the man standing near the fire, they 

 shot at him, but missed him. Again they shot, but again they missed. 

 He kept walking about the fire, very slowly. Then when the 

 Ani:gh(i)sgi came nearer, and they shot at him again, he let himself 

 fall to the ground, upon which he rolled about. They kept shooting 

 at him from quite near until all their arrows had been shot. Then 

 they had to retrieve their arrows. 



While they were looking around for their arrows, he rolled a little 

 way aside to the edge of a steep hill and then rolled all the way down 

 the hill. By the time they had found arrows and had gotten ready 

 to shoot again, they did not see him anymore. 



He was a magician, and the reason why they could not kill him 

 was that he was up in the air all the time that they were shooting at 

 him, and what they were shooting at was only his shadow. They 

 could not see him ; they always shot at his shadow. 



6.— THE BATTLE OF WA?DHO:GI MOUND 



The old men of the Cherokee were great magicians — the most 

 powerful of all. 



The Ani:gh{i)sgi had been fighting around here,®^ and then they 

 went down near WaHho:gi ^^ and killed a hunter. The hunters that 

 were with him went to WaHho:gi and told the people there what 

 happened. 



An old man ordered the people to pursue the Ani:gh(i)sgi, who 

 ran for Wa?dho:gi Mound. ^^ The old man from Wa^dho:gi prayed 

 for the Ani:gh{i)sgi to become weak. 



As the Ani:gh(i)sgi chmbed the mound (by way of which they had 

 also come), the slope of it became muddy. There had been no mud 

 there when they had come over the mound, but now they sank up to 

 their ankles in the mud. As they climbed higher, they sank deeper 

 and deeper, and by the time they reached the top, they were in mud 

 up to their thighs. 



»» The Eastern Cherokee Reservation. 



«' This settlement was located on Watauga Creek, near Franklin, Macon County, N.C. We cannot 

 translate the name, and suspect that it is not from Cherokee. 



" Olbrechts made a note to the effect that his Informant, Morgan Calhoun, knew of several mounds: 

 (1) One near Yellowhill from which "people from the government" had taken bones that they considered 

 to be human, but which he thought were merely deer; (2) another one near Yellowhill, called Nunv:yi 

 ('potato-place'); (3) one beyond (south of?) Blrdtown, the southernmost of the Qualla townships, called 

 Oanv:dhalv:yi ('hooked, it-place'); (4) Gidu:hwa, near Governors Island; (5) Oanv:Mdv:yi (long, It- 

 place'), in Cherokee County, near Murphy, at the "limit of the Asheville Division Railroad"; (6) fFo'- 

 dho:gi, 'strongest of all,' which he erroneously thought to be somewhere in South Carolina or Georgia. 

 Calhoun told Olbrechts that formerly there were many mounds that no longer exist. "He does not know 

 what they were for[.] Forts perhaps? Or maybe people In olden times lived in them!" 



