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  THE 
  INALI 
  MANUSCRIPT. 
  315 
  

  

  position 
  of 
  honor 
  among 
  his 
  people, 
  including 
  fhose 
  of 
  councilor, 
  

   keeper 
  of 
  the 
  townhouse 
  records, 
  Sunday-school 
  leader, 
  conjurer, 
  

   officer 
  in 
  the 
  Confederate 
  service, 
  and 
  Methodist 
  preacher, 
  at 
  last 
  

   dying, 
  as 
  he 
  was 
  born, 
  in 
  the 
  ancient 
  faith 
  of 
  his 
  forefathers. 
  

  

  On 
  inquiring 
  of 
  his 
  daughter 
  she 
  stated 
  that 
  her 
  father 
  had 
  left 
  a 
  

   great 
  many 
  papers, 
  most 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  still 
  iu 
  her 
  possession, 
  and 
  

   on 
  receiving 
  from 
  the 
  interpreter 
  an 
  explanation 
  of 
  our 
  purpose 
  she 
  

   readily 
  gave 
  permission 
  to 
  examine 
  and 
  make 
  selections 
  from 
  them 
  

   on 
  condition 
  that 
  the 
  matter 
  should 
  be 
  kept 
  secret 
  from 
  outsiders. 
  

   A 
  day 
  was 
  appointed 
  for 
  visiting 
  her, 
  and 
  on 
  arriving 
  we 
  found 
  her 
  

   living 
  in 
  a 
  comfortable 
  log 
  house, 
  built 
  by 
  Inali 
  himself, 
  with 
  her 
  

   children 
  and 
  an 
  ancient 
  female 
  relative, 
  a 
  decrepit 
  old 
  woman 
  with 
  

   snow-white 
  hair 
  and 
  vacant 
  countenance. 
  This 
  was 
  the 
  oldest 
  woman 
  

   of 
  the 
  tribe, 
  and 
  though 
  now 
  so 
  feeble 
  and 
  childish, 
  she 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  

   veritable 
  savage 
  in 
  her 
  young 
  days, 
  having 
  carried 
  a 
  scalp 
  in 
  the 
  

   scalp 
  dance 
  in 
  the 
  Creek 
  war 
  75 
  years 
  before. 
  

  

  Having 
  placed 
  chairs 
  for 
  us 
  in 
  the 
  shade 
  Inali's 
  daughter 
  brought 
  

   out 
  a 
  small 
  box 
  filled 
  with 
  papers 
  of 
  various 
  kinds, 
  both 
  Cherokee 
  

   and 
  English. 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  examining 
  these 
  was 
  a 
  tedious 
  business, 
  

   as 
  each 
  paper 
  had 
  to 
  be 
  opened 
  out 
  and 
  enough 
  of 
  it 
  read 
  to 
  get 
  the 
  

   general 
  drift 
  of 
  the 
  contents, 
  after 
  which 
  the 
  several 
  classes 
  were 
  

   arranged 
  in 
  separate 
  piles. 
  While 
  in 
  the 
  midst 
  of 
  this 
  work 
  she 
  

   brought 
  out 
  another 
  box 
  nearly 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  a 
  small 
  trunk, 
  and 
  on 
  

   setting 
  it 
  down 
  there 
  was 
  revealed 
  to 
  the 
  astonished 
  gaze 
  such 
  a 
  

   mass 
  of 
  material 
  as 
  it 
  had 
  not 
  seemed 
  possible 
  could 
  exist 
  in 
  the 
  

   entire 
  tribe. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  papers 
  of 
  the 
  sort 
  already 
  mentioned 
  there 
  were 
  a 
  

   number 
  of 
  letters 
  in 
  English 
  from 
  various 
  officials 
  and 
  religious 
  

   organizations, 
  and 
  addressed 
  to 
  " 
  Enola," 
  to 
  " 
  Rev. 
  Black 
  Fox," 
  and 
  

   to 
  " 
  Black 
  Fox, 
  Esq," 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  war 
  letters 
  written 
  to 
  

   him 
  by 
  Cherokees 
  who 
  had 
  enlisted 
  in 
  the 
  Confederate 
  service. 
  

   These 
  latter 
  are 
  all 
  written 
  in 
  the 
  Cherokee 
  characters, 
  in 
  the 
  usual 
  

   gossipy 
  style 
  common 
  among 
  friends, 
  and 
  several 
  of 
  them 
  contain 
  

   important 
  historic 
  material 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  movements 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  

   armies 
  in 
  East 
  Tennessee. 
  Among 
  other 
  things 
  was 
  found 
  his 
  cer- 
  

   tificate 
  as 
  a 
  Methodist 
  preacher, 
  dated 
  in 
  1848. 
  •' 
  Know 
  all 
  men 
  by 
  

   these 
  presents 
  that 
  Black 
  Fox 
  (Cherokee) 
  is 
  hereby 
  authorized 
  to 
  

   exercise 
  his 
  Gifts 
  and 
  Graces 
  as 
  a 
  local 
  preacher 
  in 
  M. 
  E. 
  Church 
  

   South." 
  

  

  There 
  was 
  found 
  a 
  manuscript 
  book 
  in 
  Inali's 
  handwriting 
  con- 
  

   taining 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  council 
  of 
  Wolftown, 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  

   been 
  secretary 
  for 
  several 
  years 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  war. 
  

   This 
  also 
  contains 
  some 
  valuable 
  materials. 
  

  

  There 
  were 
  also 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  miscellaneous 
  books, 
  papers, 
  and 
  pic- 
  

   tures, 
  together 
  with 
  various 
  trinkets 
  and 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  conjuring 
  

   stones. 
  

  

  