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ed, clear blue calico, a piece of the same stuff was wrapped round 
his head like a turban. He wore richly ornamented leather leg¬ 
gings set with glass beads, and mocassins, and had an equally or¬ 
namented hunting pouch hung around him. Moderately fat, and 
of a great stature, he appeared to be about thirty years old. He 
had mustaches like all his countrymen. I was introduced to him, 
and shook hands with him. The conversation was very trifling 
and short. It took place through an interpreter who appeared to 
be a dismissed soldier. This creature caused the chief to rise 
when we commenced speaking to him; when I begged him to re¬ 
main sitting, he reseated himself mechanically. He directed no 
questions to me, and answered mine with yes and no. To the 
question, whether he knew any thing of the country of which I 
was a native, he answered by a shake of the head. He looked 
no more at me. Several Indians wore their hair in a singular 
style; it was shorn on both sides of the head, and the middle,, 
from the neck over to the forehead, stood up like a cock’s comb. ! 
Seen from behind, they appeared as if they wore a helmet. Quite 
small boys practised themselves already in shooting with a little 
bow. I attempted to joke with a little fellow, three years old, 1 
but he took the jest in bad part, and threatened me with his 
bow. 
After sunset, towards six o’clock in the evening, we reached 
Walker’s, and found a good reception in a large log-house, each 
of us had a separate chamber. The landlord was a captain of in¬ 
fantry in the United States’ service formerly, and had, as our host 
of yesterday, an Indian wife. 
On the following day we rode to Montgomery, twenty-five miles 
distant. The road was in the beginning bad, afterwards, however, 
really good. We crossed a bridge over a stream one hundred 
paces long, and were then obliged to toil over a long, wretched 1 
causeway. The vegetation was again exceedingly luxuriant, it ; 
was remarkably beautiful on the banks of Line Creek, a little 
river, which forms the boundary between the Indian territory and 
the state of Alabama, eight miles from Walker’s. Very lofty live 
oaks, and oaks of other descriptions, several magnolias, and 
amongst them, a particularly handsome and lofty macrophylla. 
As we entered upon the territory of Alabama, we soon observ¬ 
ed that we were upon a much better soil. It was darker, much 
wood was removed, and signs of cultivation every where. Upon ! 
several plantations, the cotton fields exhibited themselves in 
beautiful order; the log houses were only employed as ^>negri& 
cabins; the mansion-houses, two stories high, are for the most 
part painted white, and provided with piazzas and balconies. At 
most of them the cotton gins and presses were at work. The 
planters had not finished the whole of their crop, on account of 
