papers which were seized was found a manuscript
dictionary of the language, which he had prepared for publication -
the first, and even yet, perhaps, the most important study of the lan-
guage ever made. Says Adair: "As he was learned and possessed
of a very sagacious penetrating judgment, and had every qualification
that was requisite for his bold and difficult enterprise, it was not to be
doubted that, as he wrote a Cheerake dictionary, designed to be
published at Paris, he likewise set down a great deal that would have
been very acceptable to the curious and serviceable to the representa-
tives of South Carolina and Georgia, which may be readily found in
Frederica if the manuscripts have had the good fortune to escape the
despoiling hands of military power." He claimed to be a Jesuit, acting
under. ordersagainst Carolina
in 171 1 gave opportunity to the Cherokee to cooperate in striking the
blow which drove the Tuscarora from their ancient homes to seek
refuge in the north. The Cherokee then turned their attention to the
Shawano on the ( 'uniberland. and with the aid of the ( 'hiekasaw finally
expelled theiu from that region about the year L715. Inroads upon
the Catawba were probably kept up until the latter had become so far
reduced by war and disease as to be mere dependent pensioners upon
the whites. The former friendship with the Chickasaw was at last
broken through the overbearing conduct of the Cherokee, and a war
followed of which we find incidental notice in L757, 8 and which termi-
nated in a decisive victory for the Chickasaw about L768. The bitter
war with the Iroquois of