The trip went well, and in 1764 the Cherokees again traveled to London with the hopes of appealing to the king to restrict colonists to east of the Appalachians as the settlers were encroaching on Cherokee land. However, this second trip was unsuccessful. The Cherokee were refused an audience and sent back in March 1765, with Timberlake remaining in London as he was arrested for failing to pay the bill for the lodging of himself and the Cherokees. Indeed, it was probably while he was incarcerated that Timberlake wrote these memoirs, which later became a valuable source of information regarding the Cherokee people and their beliefs and customs. Timberlake died the same year of publication, a brief newspaper obituary being glued opposite the title page in the copy featured above.