and otherwise maltreated them till they died, five or six a day, then threw their dead bodics into the nearest marsh, and had them "trodden down in the mud-from whence they were soon exposed by the washing of the tides, and at low-water the prisoners belield the carrion-crows picking the bones of their departed companions were known at that time to have made thumb-serews out of musket-locks, to torture Georgia women, wives of "rebels," to foreo them to reveal tho places where their husbands were in hiding. Innate ernelty is not exelusively The Cherokees had the worst of the fighting on the British side during the Revolution. Again and again their towns were burnt, their winter stores destroyed, and whole bands reduced to the vergo of starvation. At one time, when hard pressed by the American forees, they sent to the Creeks for help; but the shrewd Creeks repliod, "You have taken the thorns out of our (British officers) Also, that white men an Indian trait. feet; you are wclcome to them."

only limited aid to the British, had suffered much less severcly That any of the Indians should have joined the "rebel" cause scoms wonderful, as they had evidently nothing to gain by the transfer of their allegiance to what must hae appcarod them for a long time to be the losing side in the contest. For three yoars and a half Savannah was in the possession of the British, and again and again thoy had control of the entire State citing the Indians to massaeres they left many a writton record 8uch, for instanee, as this, which is in a letter written by The Creeks, baving given to And to show that they had no compunction about in General Gage from Boston, June, 1775: "WVe need not be ten der of calling on the savages to attack the Americans."^[1]

The first diplomatic relations of the United States Govern ment with the Cherokccs were in the making of the treaty of

Hopewell, in 1785. At the Hopewell conncil the United States