CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. bxil 
on our return to Mibiri, just at the mouth of Wara- 
tilla creek, we saw the general, and Captains Eyre 
and Dawson, and Commissary Pittman (three of 
the best fellows alive), coming up in a tent-boat. 
Limmediately directed my friend to lie flat down 
in the’canoe ; and then, like robin redbreast of old, 
I covered this great babe of the wood with leaves. 
Having saluted the' governor and his company, I 
ordered the negroes to keep abreast of his boat, m 
order that we might converse as we. went along. 
Here I hada fine opportunity of pumping him with 
regard to my friend in the bottom of the canoe. I 
asked him if he had seen Captain lately. 
He said; not very lately; and he feared that the 
captain. was sick. I then added, that he was ex- 
pected: at Mr. Edmonstone’s ; and the general 
immediately rejoined, that it would give them all 
exceeding great pleasure to see him, as he was such 
an excellent fellow. By this I knew: that all was 
tight. _We accompanied the general’s boat up to 
Mr Edmonstone’s ; my friend lying quite still under 
the troelies, and hearing every word of our con- 
versation. About.a couple of hours after our arrival, 
I left the house for a while, and then returned with 
my friend, who in the meantime had gone into an 
out-building: The general shook him cordially by the 
hand, and asked him when he had left town. He 
answered that he had been to see an acquaintance 
in the creek, and had come thus far to pass a day 
or two with Mr. Edmonstone. ‘Having now proof 
positive that his plan of self-expatriation was quite 
unknown to the general, he determined to return 
