[111]. Mooney says seemingly refers to the fact that the tribe occupied a cave country; followed by Hodge, Handbook, I, 245, “cave people.” But Starr, the Cherokee historian, agrees with Adair: A-che (fire) ahgi (he takes). Early History, 7.
[112]. Gatschet: Otari (above) Erati (low). Mooney, Otari or Atari (mountain).
[113]. Among the traders in 1730-35 were: Anthony Deane, said to have been a learned man, Cornelius Dougherty, Eleazar Wiggan, Alexander Long, Ludovick Grant, a man of intelligence and influence, David Dowie, Joseph Cooper and Gregory Haines.
[114]. In 1715 Col. Chicken was assured that the Valley Towns alone had by count 2,370 fighting men, one-half the number equipped with guns.
[115]. Of 1760-61.
[116]. Compare the accordant account of DeBrahm in Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 193; also 477.
[117]. Flowing towards territory claimed by the French. Thus, it seems, came also the name of French Broad River, in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.
[118]. Also the Catawbas in the same and in the following year. On small-pox: Du Prazt, History, 305; Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, 209 et seq. In September, 1739, chiefs of the Cherokees complained that their people had been poisoned by bad rum brought in by traders, but on inquiry it was ascertained that unlicensed traders had during the preceding summer carried small-pox to their nation. Harris, Memorials of Oglethorpe, 214.
[119]. Guinea negroes.
[120]. The Indians made much use of the root of the white nettle, which because of its caustic and detergent properties, was used for cleansing ulcers and proud-flesh. Bartram’s Observations, 45. But the “mountain alum” appears to be cranesbill (geranium maculatum) an astringent, recognized as such by medical authorities today.