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Title: The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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arned the timely art, when the whitespushed them too hard, of sending complaints to the authorities. We are drove as it were into the sea, they said on one occa-sion. We have hardly land sufficient to stand upon. Weare neither fish nor birds. We cannot live in the water, norin the air! They were fond of making treaties, and not veryfaithful in the observance of them. The Creeks were more numerous, and spent their varyingrage more readily upon the Georgians, who, with the Span-iards in Florida, were their nearest neighbors on the east andsouth. The Choctaws were supposed to be much more nu-merous than the nearer tribes, but their remoteness generallyprevented more than small parties of vagrant warriors joiningthe other tribes. The Chickasaws were as a rule the most tract-able of all. They were a handsome race, and rode a fine breedof horses. Note. —The opposite map of the Creek country, and the home of MeGillivray, is from a mapof Georgia in Careys American Atlas, Philadelphia, 1795.
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384 UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST. The year 1790 had opened with some warnings of a new com-bination among the southern Indians. One William AugustusBowles, a young English vagabond, who had been in the Eng-lish army during the Revolution, had for some years espousedthe English, Spanish, or American interests indifferently, andhad played fast and loose with savage and civilized life byturns. Pie now compacted portions of the Creeks and Chero-kees, and induced them to send him and some of their tribes-men to England, bearing an address to the British king. Theparty managed to reach the Bahamas, where Lord Dunmorefurnished them a passage to Halifax, and in July, 1790, theywere at Quebec. Here Dorchester tried to detain them, butthey insisted on going to London, where they presented the ad-dress, and promised to put their tribes under British protection,and asked for arms and other help. Meanwhile, among the fac-tious of those tribes, where an active rival of Bowles was morepowerful, an

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