Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 65: what you’re looking at

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THE TABLES TURNED, 67 CHAPTER IX... | SINGLE COMBAT. | ol $ THE condition of the Cherokees, soward, the close of the summer of 1761, =e very different from, that with which they had ay ean n.in the spring... No. longer were = tae. of es and enthusiastic warriors, “ barn- ; ae with gh h and eager for the fray, but a crowd of: broken ard mi flying with their-almost starv- ing families to ts ge in the mountains from the victori- ous enemy whom bee had s so, wantonly provoked, .. No longer’ was their Jand dotted with well-built villages, surrounded, by pleasant and fertile fields, but a “ waste of ruin”) Jaid upon: every Side, showing that the incensed invaders had rathlesaly’ them with fire and mae cnr march, and a decisive conflict had. taken Pp fee ees the earth. ree at i oa were given to and the fertile fields which sound them, evi- how far the nation had progressed in civilization, ed and laid waste. The broken-spirited Indians, Eomicbhooks-com