All last winter I was compelled to lay in the woods by the bad conduct of my own people drawing war on me." At last the Cherokees seemed sincere in their desire for peace.

[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Blount's Minutes of Conference held with Cherokees, Nov.

7 and 8, 1794, at Tellico Blockhouse.] Cherokees and Chikasaws Restrain Creeks.
These counter-attacks served a double purpose.

They awed the hostile Cherokees; and they forced the friendly Cherokees, for the sake of their own safety, actively to interfere against the bands of hostile Creeks.

A Cherokee chief, The Stallion, and a number of warriors, joined with the Federal soldiers and Tennessee militia in repulsing the Creek war parties.