James Wafford, of the western Cherokee, who was born in Georgia in
1806, says that his grandmother, who must have been born about the
middle of the last century, told him that she had heard from the old
people that long before her time a party of giants had come once to
visit the Cherokee. They were nearly twice as tall as common men,
and had their eyes set slanting in their heads, so that the Cherokee
called them Tsunil' kalû', "The Slant-eyed people," because they
looked like the giant hunter Tsul`kalû' (see the story). They said
that these giants lived very far away in the direction in which the
sun goes down. The Cherokee received them as friends, and they stayed
some time, and then returned to their home in the west. The story
may be a distorted historical tradition.