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to iickiiowledifo his iiidcbtodiu'ss to tlio late Cliii^f X. J. Smith :iiul 

 family for st'rvii'os as intcrpri'ti'i' and for kindly hos])itality during 

 successive field seasons ; to Agent H. W. Spray and wife foi- unvarying 

 kindness manifested in many helpful ways; to Mr William Harden, 

 lihrai'ian. and the (xeorgia State Historieal Society, for facilities in 

 consulting documents at Savannah, (xeorgia; to the late Col. W. H. 

 Thomas: Lieut. Col. W. W. Stringtield. of VVaynesville; Capt. James W. 

 Terrell, of Webster; Mrs A. C. Avery and Dr P. Ij. Murphy, of Mor- 

 ganton; Mr W. A. Fair, of Lincolnton; the late Maj. James Br3'son, of 

 Dillshoro: Mr H. G. Trotter, of Franklin; Mr Sibl)ald Smith, of Chero- 

 kee; Maj. R. C. -lackson, of Smithwotxi, Tennessee; Mr i). li. Dunn, 

 of Conasauga, Tennessee; the late Col. Z. A. Zile, of Atlanta; Mr L. 

 M.Greer, of Ellijay, Georgia; Mr Thomas Roliinson, of Portland, 

 Maine; Mr Allen Ross, Mr W. T. Canup, editor of the Indian Arrorv, 

 and the officers of the Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Indian Territory; 

 Dr D. T. Day. United States (xeological Survey. Washington, D. C, 

 and Prof. G. M. Bowers, of the United States Fish Conmiission, for 

 valuable oral information, letters, clippings, and photographs; to Maj. 

 .1. Adger Smyth, of Charleston. S. C. for documentary uiuterial; 

 to Mr Stansbury Hagar and the late Robert Grant Haliburton, of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., for the use of valuable manuscript notes upon 

 Cherokee stellar legends; to Miss A. M. Brooks for the use of valuable 

 Spanish document copies and translations entrusted to the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology; to Mr James Blythe, interpreter during a 

 great part of the time sj)ent l)y the author in the field; and to various 

 Cherokee and other informants mentioned in the bod}' of the work, 

 from whom the material was obtained. 



