to the late cessions,
especially on the Tennessee side. Although Ata-kullakulla sen! word
that he was readj with five hundred young warriors to fighl for the
Americans against the English or Indian enemy whenever called upon,
Dragging-canoe (Tsiyu-gunsi'ni), who had led the opposition against
the Watauga settlements, declared that he would holdfast to Cameron's
talk and continue to make war upon those who had taken his hunting
grounds. Under his leadership some hundreds id' the most warlike
and implacable warriors of the tribe, with their families, drew out
from the Upper and Middle towns and moved far down upon Tennes-
see river, where thej established new settlements on Chickamauga
creek, in the neighborhood of the present Chattanooga. The locality
appears to have been already a rendezvous for a sort of Indian ban-
ditti, who sometimes plundered boats disabled in the rapidsat this
point while descending the river. Under the name "Chickamaugas"
they >oon became noted for their uncompromising and never-ceasing
hostility. In ITs-J. in consequence of the destruction of their towns
liv Sevier and Campbell, they abandoned this location and moved
farther down the river, where they built what were afterwards known
as the ••five lower towns." viz. Running Water, Nickajack, Long
Island. Crow town, and Lookout Mountain town. These were all on
the extreme western Cherokee frontier, near where Tennessee river
crosses the state line, the first three being within the present limits' of
Tennessee, while Lookout Mountain town and Crow town were
respectively in the adjacent corners of Georgia and Alabama. Their
population was recruited from Creeks. Shawano, and white Tories, until
they were estimated at a thousand warriors. Here they remained,
a constant thorn in the side of Tennessee,