Note 118 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE KATAHBA, CHEERAKE, MUSKOHGE, CHOKTAH, AND CHIKKASAH NATIONS:

Also the Catawbas in the same and in the following year. On small-pox: Du Prazt, History, 305; Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, 209 et seq. In September, 1739, chiefs of the Cherokees complained that their people had been poisoned by bad rum brought in by traders, but on inquiry it was ascertained that unlicensed traders had during the preceding summer carried small-pox to their nation. Harris, Memorials of Oglethorpe, 214.