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try here is very thick of Indian towns and plant- 

 ations. 



We were forced to march this day for want of 

 provisions. About ten o'clock we met an Indi- 

 an that had got a parcel of shad fish ready barba- 

 cued. We bought twenty-four of them for a 

 dressed doe skin, and so went on through many 

 swamps, finding this day the long ragged moss on 

 the trees, which we had not seen for above six 

 hundred miles. In the afternoon we came upon the 

 banks of Pampticough about twenty miles above 

 the English plantations by water, though not so 

 far by land. The Indian found a canoe which he 

 had hidden, in which we all got over, and went 

 about six miles farther. "We lay that night under 

 two or three pieces of bark, at the foot of a large 

 oak. There fell abundance of snow and rain in 

 the night, with much thunder and lightning. 



Next day it cleared up, and it being about 

 twelve miles to the English, about half way we 

 passed over a deep creek, and came safe to Mr. 

 Eichard Smith's of Pampticough river, in North 

 Carolina ; where, being well received by the in- 

 habitants and pleased with the goodness of the 

 country, we all resolved to continue. 



