possessed by certain •moon-eyed people,'
who could not see in the day-time. These wretches they expelled."
He seems to consider them an albino race.' Haywood, twenty-six
years later, says that the invading Cherokee found "white people"
near the head of the Little Tennessee, with forts extending thence down
the Tennessee as far as Chickamauga creek. He gives the location of
three of these forts. The Cherokee made war against them and
drove them to the mouth of Big Chickamauga creek, when' they
entered into a treaty and agreed to remove if permitted to depart in
peace. Permission being granted, they abandoned the country. Else-
where he speaks of this extirpated white race as having extended into
Llentucky and probably also into western Tennessee, according to the
concurrent traditions of different tribes. He desci'ibes their houses.
on wdiat authority is not stated,as having been small circular structures
i Haywood, Nat. and Aborig. Hist. Tennessee, pp. 226, 284, 1828.
SBartram.Wm., Travels, p. 365; reprint, London, L792.
••Hiiyw 1. op. Cit, pp. 23 i
'Barton, New Views,p. sliv, 17'JT.
mooney] THE DE SOTO EXPEDITION — 1540 '23
of upright logs, covered with earth which had been dug out from the
inside. 1
Harry Smith, a halfhreed born about 1815, father of the late chief
of the East Cherokee, informed the author that when a boy he had
been told by an old woman a tradition of a race of very small people,
perfectly white, who once came and lived for some time on the site of
the ancient mound on the northern side of Hiwassee, at the mouth of
Peachtree creek, a few miles above the present Murphy, North Caro-
lina. They afterward removed to