S.C .-- The Cherokees, meanwhile, were not unobservant of the preparations and approaches of the Carolinians.

They gathered themselves up for defence, and in silence matured their half civilized, half primitive modes of warfare.

This people, at the period of which we write, were a people of very superior endowments and resources to any of the neighboring savage nations.

If less warlike, in the simple sense of the word, than their rivals the Creeks, they were really more to be feared, as it was in consequence of their superior civilisation that they had lost some of their brute ferocity.

If they were less reckless, they were better skilled; if less frantic in their fury, they coupled it with a wary vindictiveness which rendered the blow more fatal when it fell.