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CHAPTER II. 
CHOCTAW AGENCY TO GAINES’ CREEK. 
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coal xa ainligeente grave imi in an Indian hut.—The sub-Chief and 
his peculiarities—Arrival at the Fouche Maliant.—Arrival at the Council- 
pottery found. a aan of prairie scenery.—Flies tron- 
f train.—Description of the 
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Indian in his home. 
June 3rd.—A start at noon to day, brought us to the Choe- 
taw Agency at five p.m., where we witnessed—accidentally 
—a painful, though necessary execution of the laws of the 
United States, against the introduction of whiskey among the 
Indians. The penalty is severe, viz., fine, imprisonment, 
confiscation of the whiskey, and in case of negroes, flogging, 
at the discretion of the authorities. We had previously seen 
two negroes chained together by the neck, and driven along 
the road, by several men; these proved to be the offenders, 
the one a freeman, the other a slave. Itis optional with the 
owner, to allow the slave to be whipped or not, (the alternative 
being expulsion from the nation,) and in this instance he 
declined, but the free negro was undergoing the infliction of 
sixty lashes, laid on with an unmerciful hand, and to judge by 
his groans and cries, the punishment was full expiation for the 
offence. ° 
This law hashed a: wary a effect, and easing does 
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