SHC 1830-1905 . had the Bishops aim been an historic environment. Which one inail Southland teems with stories like this one? Before the passions of spoilsbrought European fleets to do battle between themselves along these shores the lit-tle Indian nation came and went. Mobilian and Choctaw and Creek and Chicka-saw had their days of peace and of war, of defeat and of triumph. Men still liv-ing recall the Redmen of the Spring Hill woodlands; how here they found happyhunting grounds and brought with the fruit of their infant industries the huntersspoils to traffic with the sudents of those dista
SHC 1830-1905 . had the Bishops aim been an historic environment. Which one inail Southland teems with stories like this one? Before the passions of spoilsbrought European fleets to do battle between themselves along these shores the lit-tle Indian nation came and went. Mobilian and Choctaw and Creek and Chicka-saw had their days of peace and of war, of defeat and of triumph. Men still liv-ing recall the Redmen of the Spring Hill woodlands; how here they found happyhunting grounds and brought with the fruit of their infant industries the huntersspoils to traffic with the sudents of those distant days; how often domestic feudsarose and wars alarms disturbed the peace of their little settlements. It is difficult at this day to realize that on these classic grounds the Indianreared his wigwam. Here his little ones played, and here his council fires too, doubtless was heard his ringing warwhoop for the gathering ofthe clans when on the site of an ancient Maubilla (not so far from Spring Hill). SPRING HILL COLLEGE. 17 was fought the greatest battle, says Bancroft, that ever took place on the conti-nent between white man and Indian—a battle in which De Soto, despite infantry,cavalry and artillery nearly lost his life and his army, and six thousand Indianslay dead on the field. The Indian ceased from his warring for a while, but it wasonly that the surrounding territory might become a field upon which the roar ofbattle between Spaniard, French and English, was to be hushed only when all in-terests were merged in one and all bowed at last to the supremacy of the oneflag. Of all the adventurers that came to discover or pillage the gulf coast, manya one must have traversed these Spring Hill solitudes, and many a time soldierand traveller and emigrant going along the old colonial road or mail route that ranbeside these college grounds, must have pitched his wanderers tent or laid hisweary limbs to rest. Still, none or few of them have left mention of their visith
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