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 appears, being then drunk, but, if we are to accept the statement
 contained in Governor Glen's letter, they had been instigated to the
 deed by a storekeeper. He persuaded the Notchee king to punish
 the offenders, but the Catawbas, having set out to take revenge, the
 Natchez, along with tie Pedee Indians, were forced to come farther
 down among the settlements for safety." This separation seems to
 have been permanent, as they are mentioned in 1751 as one of the
 small tribes that live among our settlements."' In October, 1755,
 two women of the Pedee tribe were killed and scalped and two boys
 carried away captive, and the deed was said to have been committed
 by some Cherokee and one Notchee, which was called the Notchee
 doctor."e This Natchez was evidently already settled with the
 Cherokee, though whether he had belonged to the former Catawba
 band of Natchez or not can not be determined. It is, however, very
 likely that the Catawba Natchez had already joined tlhoe among the
 Cherokee, for we hear nothing further regarding them.
 The Natchez appear in Cherokee tradition ulder the name of
 Anintsi, abbreviated from Ani-Na'tsi, the plural of Ni'tsi. Mooney
 says, They seem to have been regarded by the Che'rokee as a race
 of wizards and conjurers, probably Idue in part to their peculiar re-
 ligious rites andt in part to the interest wlich beloni'ed to thein as the
 remnant of a broken tribe."' Mr. Mooney being an authority on
 everything connected with the Cherokee, we can not do better than
 subjoin his statements regarding that band of the Natchez which
 lived among them. He says:

 The venerable James Wafford. a prominent mixed-blood Cherokee who was
 born in 1806 near the site of Clarkesville, (ai.. when it was all Indian country,
and who afterwards removed with his tribe to Indian Territory, informed the
writer in 1890 that the "Notchees" had their town on the north bank of
Hiwassee river, just above Peachtree creek, on the spiot where al: I iptist emission
was established by the Rev. Evan Jones sbout 1S:20, and a few miles above
the present Murphy, Cherokee county, N. C. On his mother's side lie had
himself a strain of Natchez blood. His gra:ndmotler had told him that when
she was a young woman-say about 177T--she had occasion to go to this
town on some business, which she was obliged to lrans;act through an inter-
preter, as the Natchez had then been there so short a time that only one or
two spoke any Cherokee. They were all in the one town, which the Cherokee
called Gwalgwa'hi, Frog Place," but he was unable to say whether or not it
had a townhouse. In 1824. as one of the census enumerators for the Cherokee
Nation, he went over the same section and found the Natchez then living jointly
with the Cherokee in a town called G(iilinfyi at the junction of Blrasstown and
Gumlog creeks, tributary to Hiwassee river, some 6 miles southeast of their
 SGregg, Hist. of the Old Cheraws. 10-11. A letter preserved among the Public
Documents of South Carolina states that this murder was performed by the Natchez
and Wateree together.
 SIbid., 14.
 Ibid., 15.
 d Mooney in Amer. Anthrop., n. s., I, 517.