It is no uncommon thing to see a Creek with twisnty or thirty slaves at work
on his plantation, having brought them from a slav^-holdmg country, from
which, in their long journey, and exposure to white matins ingenuity, I ven-
ture to say, that most of them got rid of one-half of them, whilst on their
long and disastrous crusade.
The Creeks, as well as the Cherokees and Choctaws, have good schools
and churches established amongst them, conducted by excellent and pious
men, from whose example they are drawing great and lasting benefits.
In PLATES 219 and 220, I have given the portraits of two distinguished
men, and I believe, both chiefs. The first by the name of Stei-cha-ca-me-^
(the great king), familiarly called ** Ben Ferryman ;" and the other, HoUte-

mal-te-tez'te-neehk-ee ( ), called " Sam Ferryman." These two men

are brothers, and are fair specimens of the tribe, who are mostly clad in
calicoes, and other cloths of civflized manufacture ; tasselled and fringed off
by themselves in the most fantastic way, and sometimes with much tme and
picturesque taste. They use a vast many beads, and other trinkets, to hang
upon their necks, and ornament their moccasins and beautifbl belts.
The choctaws, '

Of fifteen thousand, are another tribe, removed from the Northern parts of
Alabama, and Mississippi, within the few years past, and now occupying a
large and rich tract of country, South of the Arkansas and the Canadian



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riVers ; adjoinbg to the country of the Creeks and the Cherokees, equally
civilized, and living much in the same manner.
