The speech of Tomo Chichi, on presenting the feather of an Eagle to Oglethorpe, is very expressive in his own laconic explication.  By a little paraphrase it may be understood to import:  “The Eagle has a sharp beak for his enemies, but down on his breast for his friend.  He has strong wings, for he is aspiring; but they give shelter to feeble ones, for he is naturally propitious.”

“TOMO CHICHI died on the 5th of October, 1739, at his own town, four miles from Savannah, of a lingering illness, being aged about 97.  He was sensible to the last minutes; and when he was persuaded his death was near, he showed the greatest magnanimity and sedateness, and exhorted his people never to forget the favors he had received from the King when in England, but to persevere in their friendship with the English.  He expressed the greatest tenderness for General Oglethorpe, and seemed to have no concern at dying, but its being at a time when his life might be useful against the Spaniards.  He desired that his body might be buried among the English, in the town of Savannah, since it was he that had prevailed with the Creek Indians to give the land, and had assisted in the founding of the town.  The corpse was brought down by water.  The General, attended by the Magistrates and people of the town, met it upon the water’s edge.  The corpse was carried into the Percival square.  The pall was supported by the General, Colonel Stephens, Colonel Montaigute, Mr. Carteret, Mr. Lemon, and Mr. Maxwell.  It was followed by the Indians, and Magistrates, and people of the town.  There was the respect paid of firing minute guns from the battery all the time of the procession; and funeral firing by the militia, who were under arms.  The General has ordered a pyramid of stone which is dug in this neighborhood, to be erected over the grave, which being in the centre of the town, will be a great ornament to it, as well as testimony of gratitude."[1]

[Footnote 1:  Gentleman’s Magazine, 1740, Vol.  X. p. 129, and London Magazine, 1758, Vol.  LVII. p. 24.  The account of the death and funeral of Tomo Chichi, much like the above, is given in the Journal of W. STEPHENS, who was present.  Vol.  II. p. 153.]

As a frontispiece to one of the volumes of URLSPERGER’S Journal of the Saltzburg Emigrants, is an engraving of Tomo Chichi and Toonahowi, which bears the inscription, “TOMO CHICHI, Mico, and TOONAHOWI, the son of his brother, the Mice, or king of Etichitas; engraved in Augsburg after the London original, by John Jacob Kleinshmidt.”

In 1738, a dramatic entertainment in three acts, entitled Timbo Chiqui, was published by John Cleland. [NICHOLS’S Literary Anecdotes, Vol.  II. p. 459.]

TOONAHOWI was killed, valiantly fighting for the English against the Yamasee Indians, at Lake di Pupa, in 1743.

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MANIFESTO BY GENERAL OGLETHORPE.