In their efforts to keep the friendship of the red men, the British and the Americans were providing them with powder and lead.

The Indians had run short of ammunition and, since hunting was their only means of livelihood, they must shoot or starve.
South Carolina sent the Cherokees a large supply of powder and lead which was captured en route by Tories.

About the same time Henry Stuart set out from Pensacola with another consignment from the British.

His report to Lord Germain of his arrival in the Chickamaugan towns and of what took place there just prior to the raids on the Tennessee settlements is one of the most illuminating as well as one of the most dramatic papers in the collected records of that time.

* * North Carolina "Colonial Records," vol.X, pp.