Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 8: what you’re looking at

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10 dwelt the Cherokee Indians, a large, powerful and intelligent nation, who were far ahead of most of the aboriginal tribes in the arts and practices of civilization. The country which they inhabited possessed great natural advantages, abounding in pleasant valleys, fertile fields and immense forests, and girt in by lofty mountains. Their corn-fields were extensive’ and well cultivated, and their numerous towns were generally well built and fenced im. Besides the strength of their position, the Cherokees were so numerous and warlike that they were able at any time to send six thousand warriors jpto -the ‘field. Living on the frontier of the English possessions, so near BS to this formidable community of savages, it might be supposed that William Crawley would feel some uneasiness concerning SALOUEN, THE CHEROKEE. the safety of his property and his family, and that his diate “4 was really a dangerous one. The Cherokees, however, were a peaceable people, compared to other tribes, and were dis- . posed to be friendly to the whites, with whom their vie had, for a long time, been of an amicable character. r, therefore, although he could not feel that he Wier ecurity, had cleared his and cultivated his fertije he did not have the of invasion before A Cer aad had arisen in the west, which was spr b dark and threatening, toward the zenith, overshad _. Carolina colonies and the homestead of Willisir Criwle a: Although the French and English colonists had beeen a desultory war for about two years, there had been no gnition of the struggle by the home governments wo countries, which had remained at peace with ‘each other. But in May, 1756, war was formally declared by Gr : 2 Britain against France, and the colonies begun to make pre rations to carry on the conflict ina regular and vigorous" _ mahner, for the purpose of bringing it to a decisive result. “iy _ “Although the Cherokees were peaceably inclined toward — nt 2Carolinians, a quarrel had for a longtime existed between m and the Virginians. Theircountry lay within the region — | claimed and partly occupied by the French; who, - : 107 d use their best endeavors to arouse Beal warlike inclinations against the comieBooks! conn 5 iia a ae ;