They are savages and head-hunters.
The contact with savages would alone prove that.
The people are in manners complete savages.
The peninsula was then peopled by savages living in caves and subterranean holes.
Many of the pioneers of Nashville were slain by the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and at times the settlement was saved from destruction only by the heroism of Robertson, but in 1794 the savages were dealt a crushing blow at Nickojack on the lower Tennessee and much more peaceful relations were established.