Outrage followed outrage in monotonously bloody succession.

The Creeks were the worst offenders in point of numbers, but the Lower Cherokees from the Chickamauga towns did most harm according to their power.

Sometimes the bands that entered the settlements were several hundred strong; but their chief object was plunder, and they rarely attacked the strong places of the white frontiersmen, though they forced them to keep huddled in the stockaded stations; nor did they often fight a pitched battle with the larger bodies of militia.

There is no reason for reciting in full the countless deeds of rapine and murder.

The incidents, though with infinite variety of detail, were in substance the same as in all the Indian wars of the backwoods.