"The Cherokees are now exceedingly well disposed.

Mr.Cameron is now among them ...

Captain Cameron has his company of Loyal Refugees with him, who are well qualified for the service they are engaged in....

He carried up with him a considerable quantity of presents and ammunition which are absolutely necessary to engage the Indians to go upon service."] The ensuing Cherokee war was due not to the misdeeds of the settlers--though doubtless a few lawless whites occasionally did wrong to their red neighbors--but to the short-sighted treachery and ferocity of the savages themselves, and especially to the machinations of the tories and British agents.

The latter unceasingly incited the Indians to ravage the frontier with torch and scalping knife.