4. "History of the American Indians, Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia." By James Adair (an Indian trader and resident in the country for forty years), London, 1775. A very valuable book, but a good deal marred by the author's irrepressible desire to twist every Indian utterance, habit, and ceremony into a proof that they are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes. He gives the number of Cherokee warriors at 2,300. 5. Hawkins, Pickens, Martin, and McIntosh, in their letter, give them 800 warriors: most other estimates make the number smaller. 6. Almost all the early writers make them more numerous. Adair gives them 4,500 warriors, Hawkins 6,000. But much less seems to have been known about them than about the Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaws; and most early estimates of Indians were largest when made of the least-known tribes. Adair's statement is probably the most trustworthy. The first accurate census showed the Creeks to be more numerous. 7. Hawkins, Pickens, etc., make them "at least" 27,000 in 1789, the Indian report for 1837 make them 26,844. During the half century they had suffered from devastating wars and forced removals, and had probably slightly decreased in number. In Adair's time their population was increasing. 8. "Am. Archives," 5th Series, I., 95. Letter of Charles Lee. 9. Adair, 227. Bartram, 390. 10. Bartram, 365. 11. Adair, Bartram. 12. Bartram. 13. "A Sketch of the Creek Country," Benjamin Hawkins. In Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc. Written in 1798, but not published till fifty years afterwards. 14. _Do_, p. 33. 15. The use of the word "beloved" by the Creeks was quite peculiar. It is evidently correctly translated, for Milfort likewise gives it as "bien aimé." It was the title used for any thing held in especial regard, whether for economic or supernatural reasons; and sometimes it was used as western tribes use the word "medicine" at the present day. The old chiefs and conjurers were called the "beloved old men"; what in the west we would now call the "medicine squaws," were named "the beloved old women." It was often conferred upon the chief dignitaries of the whites in writing to them. 16. Hawkins, 37. 17. Bartram, 386. The Uchee town contained at least 1,500 people. 18. _Do_. 19. Hawkins, 30. 20. Hawkins 39; Adair, 408. 21. Bartram, 184. 22. Milfort, 212. 23. Hawkins, 67. Milfort, 203. Bartram, 386. Adair, 418. 24. Hawkins and Adair, _passim_. 25. _Do_. Also _vide_ Bartram. 26. Hawkins, 29, 70. Adair, 428. 27. "History of Alabama," by Albert James Pickett, Charleston, 1851, II., 30. A valuable work.