The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-07
HAUN1S OF THE MALUNjONS.
4 PECULIAR TRIBE or AOUN-
TANNERS.
The ChIfdr~s Are Clay Esstevs ssA
the womea Chew Tobacco Like
the Men Foik-A People of
Very strange sup~Fsttffoss.

TIE Southern raossns4is.esr has osser been
d~xcrfsss-1 hsg ways and me- sfsss esfse2-
tursd and hss Gsalse< exas gsr2ss1 t1f ltsey-
airy gasposes- sets ne s~ase 81 the ex-
tent 81 artistic rEsssrfDg TEaafs,ss warren lzses
Essslssts Rave fa1g upon tia word cosa-
csEElEz ham, one s01 siAsk sa&s 20
would sssss thssa With he Ui14tes statss
seTe<sus of5assss. a. ssgSEsn 20 Dc s3taag
sssiaed Or saos Bat shs sgsogansssneer
sssstassr xEsws ssog cares y s-as 1sfssrS fzlEik
O al-. Ills ;saN0rAr4es - matched ~ 1's
indifference - 30 what the oSsa@sls .oEIo
Ensy ga
YET taess are differing varieties Of hign-
Dcssn IN that Ets1 inaccessible ysyi92
where North gsFolsE&s western eEsrsHsIy
y inserted wsdxsiixe ieEw a~a Georgia sn1
Te8Dezzee dwell ssssf&rsng communities Ok
= people kzoan ioe&sly 81 .Aalsaj2s3e, or
the dark 1nss." The word il derived from
tins Cherokee. -suEEaf % asga Tlns
Sill Ispssrs s5Sgt lHaIlasagG and asasE1
the fasts.ss u s-hesssh mountain
Tbs MsisnloBs are a DARK lean and
vola Tile, while the other snoax.saislesfs q
that section Display tnslr ssxog pFoCsiss-
ties in their large. fair frames. tsttT taxi
,HDiiy aaa . certain pissls ao< <s.As'sss %
dhH:,sssE Loo. For generations sls~g have
Lived ia is0lstsd ceyes ~ TIE Great Sssssss-
les having little intercourse w8La TIE Cut
side world and preserving certain ways and
customs nef only unique bat sersias uEon
standardization.
Their osixfa.
"Whsse We come frssry' said one of the
more Intelligent A&nznssnS with whom
WAS taking one day NJ crossyss1s log
store ct whlch he WAS Ire owner. Folks
DOWN below cay we n4ix with Iayan. Psn.
That not -. No iatn, TO niger about
ws'unA ws come from Fofeh-a~gee.'
II suppose yoa mean Portuguese But
how about the SPANISH DID you never
hear Of them
'Yuss. s.rfs. Porcla -a-gee. span-yah~all
same lily sTsn6pap told my father how
his father ussd to iaik OF Forch-a-gee or
6paA-yuh, wat come ~ from way down
1cush, Florias way, ! reckon. Cherokee
fight EN- and ssop en- right about mere:
that. they say. Is how We Aaiunjens coma
10 be here
There seemS 10 be a sort % Evolutionary
bssief among these pcopsa hat ,heiF. aiices-
tors came from somewhere In the far
south II u not unlikely that some lost
stragxisTs 81 Do Solos expedition gslgat
HAYS wandered thithsrsaEd and taksn 20
themselves w.sxs from among tbs Indians
deApits present Masuu;en scesTn and denial.
Through Swain aud tGerokss counties. In
North Carolina, ard Polk and Monroe
counties. In Tennssses. these people may
be- found In small scattered settlements,
wnieh are usually located In remote ANA
oat-of- the-Hay places. Being extremely
ciArtiss ana reserved. they have iDseFmaF
red bat little with out ssderA and today pre-
f.sve Thea local habits. bssisss ard "a lit
pecnitasitsss IN all their primitive strength
They are clay -eatefs, especially during
childhood, though adults have bsea caaSaI
Yany throRxil fsar VI reproof 81 ridicuis.
II u no uncommon sight 30 see a MaIanjcn
child run Cat TO the chimney ashisni tns
house. And. digging ous the red clay from
between ehe s.osias. eat ths sense With ap-
parent gusto. The females. instead Of siip-
ping snan," as do many OF the mountain
women, ehaw tobacco openly like their
A Crude Catholicism.
But II is In their religious customs and
their sucerssssloas That the general queer
ness Of the Malantons Is most manifest
They ars Catholics Ia crude sort OF way
though every where else through these
fncussts;.s regions The mountssnaers are
strongly Protestant. being mostly either
Hxptists or MSshodists. Eui ina NAHUM
jon rcgarss these AS hsTi!cs. ana LOCKS srp
70 Che travelling pF.sst no visits hts Ut
tie settlement AZ rare Intervals with Afsrssi
reverence yfopsrtonata 90 his ignorance
ThoSs who profess 10 knoH most about
HIN say that he Inherited his religion from
gsther sifi, ali thsir medieval h4gotry Re
this as II may. he observes certain church
fast days and holidays rightly though sad
ding them With local pscnllarigies that
seam 10 appeal 20 his crude sense OF rev.
rrence.
Tn. Malnnjon housewife instead of
telling her baadg'f rketes her brief pray
ers and keeps count upon her fingers Sas
makes the sign ~ Ia. cross over her rising
tread doaagh, invokss the aid Of The Holy
Virgin 10 keep milk from soaring after a
garden seeds into the Are than plant
them upon the wans 81 the moon Her
husband never Butchers hts hogs except
when the sign iof the Zodiael - In the
heart" lie siii not go hunting on a
Friday. mar "raaeh" his mule except when
the moon Is new"
Their small pet sspersiitlons. which are
numerous they are amusing 10 an
outsider believed in implicitly. Stop
ping ~ taa hot;se OF A s~arthy settler one
day. l found hirr pacing ira ward ard
forward IN his yard. hoiiins upright before
him fcrked pe.eAtres ltrnh tha, hAa been
carefsaTy peeled III. was trying 10 locate
the best site for a we'll by the diysning
process
what connection can there DE between
a peschtrse limb and underground
sosro. ~ Water I asked scsptiaasly
He scratched his ear refectsvely.
Lack yszh. he returned at length
Wen ] kills yeeriin or a deer s. 81
tha reason tbs hsssEaEas twenty miles away
strike heelias for &c body almost b.
feYr tho cFttter IL ieaaF How 30 ha con
meet pa
confessed ;say ignorance Nj Mslanton
sfstnd smiled a superior smile
These things as~ Euta' en- hs said.
"a don't know how nor way. bslt / Cia
know tasy-gs all se Watch out ana
STE 5als naacatree fork h@Eia 10 'twtyt
eeitin' pretty close 20 water no@ ~ go
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