and
"Ottare" (d'taM), or mountainous, must be rejected as imperfect.
The Eastern dialect, formerly often called the Lower Cherokee
dialect, was originally spoken in all the towns upon the waters of the
Keowee and Tugaloo, head-streams of Savannah river, in South Caro-
lina ami the adjacent portion of Georgia. Its chief peculiarity is a
rolling /'. which takes the place of the / of the other dialects. In
this dialect the tribal name is Tsa'ragi', which the English settlers of
Carolina corrupted to Cherokee, while the Spaniards, advancing from
the south, became better familial' with the other form, which they
wrote as Chalaque. Owing to their exposed frontier position, adjoin-
ing the white settlements of Carolina, the Cherokee of this division
'Barton, Ben}. 8., New Views on the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, p. xlv, passim;
Phils .,I7'.i7; Qallatfn, Albert, synopsis of Indian Tribes, Trana American Antiquarian Society, n, p.
'.il: Cambridge, 1836; Hew iit. .1. X. B., The Cherokee an Iroquoian Language, Washington, 1887 i Ms
In the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnologj
t MYl DIALECTS RELATED TRIBES 17
were the first to feel the shock of war in the campaigns of L760 and
1776. with the result that before the close of the Revolution they had
been completely extirpated from their original territory and scattered
as refugees among the more western towns of the tribe. The con-
sequence was that they lost their distinctive dialect, which is now
practically extinct. In 1888 it was spoken by but one man on the
reservation in North Carolina.
The Middle dialect, which might properly be designated the Kituhwa
dialect, was originally spoken in the towns on