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you started directly rlymy from 'where your relativeslived and you started to hundred Niles north of theChoct ,lw Nation. Didn't you start to Arkanss?A. Yes, sir, ri4it throui4a Arkansas.A.-You Tere in a hured and fifty miles ( gm just estimatingit from -the Territry.t,.he man) to two hundred udles out of your wayThat was no boly's business but ay own.Q. You lived there sixteen years because your 7.)eople notcome vrest r ,nd you ziad no intention of cosidn to the Territory.A,- How do you la 0 ? I 7as intendLi to come to the Territory.as f arI find that if you had traIeled,. :in a strit line directlywest froth Al. abTha throuh dissi2sippi, as you did towardsArkansas to the 'Qoint in Fulton County, from which youssid you were too noor to Ep, and where you were stilla hundred and fifty to a hundred and sevel -Ity five mi -lesfrom the Cinoctaw Nation, if you had travaed directlywest, you would have been within less .from the Choctaw Nation,,han a hundred milesI came throu7p. th.7t tart of the country becaue it suitelmto cbule that way; my vi e had some people in Arkansaz andwe wanted to see them. It was rry bu7iness about which waycome to the Chootw Nation., You didn't have any body out here to rejoin at that time,did you?A.- No, sir,Q.- Fifteen years after that the rest of them had come outhere and settled?A.- Yes, sir.Mr. Norman;Q.,- You talk about that mar ov(7.r there, would you know it if