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and fomewhat of the olive cad, especially the adults ; 
and fome of their young women are nearly as fair 
and blooming as European women. 
The Cherokees in their difpofuions and man- 
ners are grave and fteady : dignified and circum- 
fpecl in their deportment ; rather flow and re- 
fer ved in converfation ; yet frank, cheerful,* and 
humane ; tenacious of the liberties and natural 
rights of man; fecret, deliberate and determined 
in their councils ; honed, jufi and liberal, and 
ready always to facrifice every pleafure and grati- 
fication, even their blood, and life itfelf, to de- 
fend their territory and maintain their rights. 
They do homage to the Mufcogulges with re- 
luctance, and are impatient under that galling 
yoke. I was witnefs to a mod humiliating lafh, 
which they paffively received from their red rn af- 
ters, at the great congrefs and treaty of Auguda, 
when thefe , people acceded with the Creeks, to 
the ceilion of the New Purchafe ; where were 
about three hundred of the Creeks, a great part of 
whom were warriors, and about one hundred Che- 
rokees. 
The firft day of convention opened with fettling 
the preliminaries, one article of which was a de- 
mand on the part of the Georgians, to a territory 
lying on the Tugilo, and claimed by them both* 
which it feems the Cherokees had, previous to 
the opening of congrefs, privately conveyed to the 
Georgians, unknown to the Creeks. The Geor- 
gians mentioning this as a matter fettled, the 
Creeks demanded in council, on what foundation 
they built that claim, faying they had never ceded 
thefe lands. The Georgians anfwered, that they 
bought them of their friends and brothers the 
Cherokees. The creeks nettled and incenfed at 
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