[235]. On these titles among the Cherokees: Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 194n.
[236]. For aid rendered by the Southern Indians to Oglethorpe: Harris, Memorials, 224; and the Chickasaws, Ga. Hist. Coll., I, 270, 277.
[237]. All authorities are in agreement: Bartram, Travels, 212; Lawson, History of Carolina, 287; Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 79; Mooney, Myths, lxviii, 434, 465; see p. 120 ante.
[238]. The fullest and best account is by Mooney, The Cherokee Ball Play, reprint from Am. Anthropologist, April, 1890; also in Myths, passim; also, Bartram, Travels, 506. For a game played for the amusement of the Duke of Orleans (King Louis Philippe) in 1797, Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 437.
[239]. The best account of the game and yard where played is Bartram’s in Observations, 34, and Myer, Prehistoric Villages in Middle Tennessee, 515. See also, Mooney, Myths, 434, Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 99; and Jones, Antiquities, 341-2.
[240]. The discoidal stone used somewhat resembled the discus of the Greek athletes; wrought of quartz. Travelers among the Creeks remark their grace in the game. “Nearly all the fine specimens that enrich the public and private collections of other States have been found in the valleys of Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.” Thurston, Antiquities of Tennessee, 263, where illustrations may be found; also in Harrington, Remains on Upper Tennessee River, 236.
[241]. Consult on modes of fishing: Jones, Antiquities of Southern Indians, 327 et seq.; Bartram’s Observations, 44.
[242]. In the American Pioneer, of Cincinnati, I, 143, Barker gives an interesting account of the Chickasaws fishing in Duck River in Middle Tennessee (1805). He observed the Indians in their canoes pursuing large fishes which swarmed in that beautiful stream in the domain claimed by them; and taking great numbers by the use of long cane spears. Cane grew there in profusion. The spears “were sixteen or eighteen feet in length, sharpened with a knife into a lancet shape at one end, and were thrown with great dexterity twenty or thirty feet; seldom failing to pierce a fish through at every throw. This was doubtless an invention of great antiquity, and practiced by their fathers ages before the use of iron was known amongst them.”
[243]. For a similar account: Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 69.
[244]. Consult Jones, op. cit., 269-286, and illustrations.