[61]. See later note.
[62]. In early chronicles “Cusa” and other variations; largest town of the Upper Creeks; entered by De Soto July 16, 1540; in the present Talladega County, Ala., east of and near to Coosa River.
[63]. Kingsborough here cites Morfi in corroboration.
[64]. Morfi’s History of the Province of Texas, and Tanner’s Narrative of Thirty Year’s Residence among the Indians, are cited by Lord Kingsborough.
[65]. Boudinot, Star of the West, 176; and Mooney, Myths, 503, quoting Washburn, Reminiscences, 191, 121, on the capture of the ark of the Cherokees by the Delaware Indians, to the loss of which the old priests of the Cherokees ascribed the later degeneracy of their people. Buttrick, Antiquities, 12, refers to the ark covered with deer-skin “to be set up when they rested and carried when they journeyed.”
[66]. Corroboration: Bartram, Travels, 495.
[67]. This is true, also, of the Sauk, Fox and Kickapoo Indians of the West. Morse’s Rep. Ind. Affairs, Appendix, p. 130; Wilkes, Narrative of the U. S. Expedition, III, 78, and Schoolcraft, Information Indian Tribes, IV, 63. Frazer, in his Golden Bough, says that the custom is observed by tribes in Australia, Malaya and Africa.
[68]. On treatment of captives: Hodge, Handbook, I, 203, and, in addition, Smith, Account of Remarkable Occurrences, passim.
[69]. In this year the Chickasaws destroyed the French Ft. Massac on the Ohio, near the mouth of Tennessee River, in the Illinois Country. Alvord and Carter, New Regime, 132.
[70]. On the Chickasaws (led by Piomingo, the “Mountain Leader” referred to as “leader” by Adair) in this campaign, and their great aid to the British: Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 216, and his Beginnings of West Tennessee, 29.