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and fomewhat of the olive caft, efpecially the adults ; 
and fome of their young women are nearly as fair 
and blooming as European women. 
The Cherokees in their difpofitions and manners 
are grave and fteady; dignified and cinTumfpedt in 
their deportment ; rather flow and refer ved in con- 
verfation ; yet frank, cheerful, and humane ; tena- 
cious of the liberties and natural rights of in an ; fc- 
cret, deliberate and determined in their councils; 
honeft, juft and liberal, and ready always to facrifice 
every pleafure and gratification, even their blood, 
and life itfelf, to defend their territory and maintain 
their rights. They do homage to the Mufcogulges 
with reludance, and are impatient under that gal- 
ling yoke. I was witnefs to a molt humiliating 
lafh, which they paftively received from their red 
mafters, at the great congrefs and treaty of Augufta, 
when thefe people acceded with the Creeks, to the 
ceftion of the New Purchafe ; where were about 
three hundred of the Creeks, a great part of whom 
were warriors, and about one hundred Cherokees. 
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 
