brother.
John Jolly, 8 the friend and adopted father of Samuel Houston. Jolly
1 See ante, pp. 105-106; Nuttall. who was oil the ground, gives them only L.500.
2 Washburn, Cephas, Reminiscences "i* the Indians, pp. 81,103; Richmond, 1869.
moosey] TROUBLES WITH OSAGE- 1 S I7-^' 137
had removed from bis old borne at the mouth of Hiwassee, in Ten-
nessee, in 1 81 v .
In the spring of L819 Tl as Nuttall, the naturalist, ascended the
Arkansas, ami he gives an interesting accounl of the western Cherokee
as he found theinal the time, [n going up the stream, "both banks of
the river, as we proceeded, were lined with the houses and farms of
the Cherokee, and though their die-- was a mixture of indigenous
and European taste, yel in their houses, which are decently furnished,
and in theirfarms, which were well fenced and stocked with cattle, we
perceive a happy approach toward civilization. Their numerous fami-
lies, also, well fed and clothed, argue a propitious progress in their
population. Their superior industry either as hunters or farmers
proves the value of property among them, and they are no longer
strangers to avarice and the distinctions created by wraith. Some of
them are possessed of property to the amount of many thousands of
dollars, ha\ e houses handsomely and conveniently furnished, and their
tables spread with our dainties and luxuries." He mentions an engage-
ment some time before between them and the Osage, in which the
Cherokee had killed nearly one hundred of the Osage, besides taking
a number of prisoners. He estimates them at about fifteen hundred,
being about half the number estimated by the eastern Nation