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Hearing of a camp of Santee Indians not far off 

 we set out intending to take up our quarters with 

 them that night. There being a deep run of wa- 

 ter in the way, one of our company being top 

 heavy, and there being nothing but a small pole 

 for a bridge, over a creek, fell into the water up 

 to the chin ; myself laughing at the accident, and 

 not taking good heed to my steps, came to the 

 same misfortune. All our bedding was wet. The 

 wind being at N. W. it froze very hard, which 

 prepared such a night's loding for me, that I nev- 

 er desire to have the like again ; the wet bedding 

 and freezing air had so qualified our bodies, that 

 in the morning when we awaked we were nigh 

 frozen to death, until we had recruited ourselves 

 before a large fire of the Indians. 



Tuesday morning we set towards the Congerees 

 leaving the Indian guide Scipio, drunk amongst 

 the Santee Indians. We went ten miles out of 

 our way to head a great swamp, the freshes hav- 

 ing filled them all with such quantities of water 

 that the usual paths were rendered impassible. 

 We met in our way with an- Indian hut, where we 

 were entertained with a fat boiled goose, venison, 

 raccoon and ground nuts. We made but little 

 stay : about noon we passed by several large Sa- 

 vannahs', wherein is curious ranges for cattle, be- 

 ing green all the year ; they were plentifully stor- 

 ed with cranes, geese, &c., and the adjacent woods 

 with great fiocks of turkeys. This day we trav- 

 eled about thirty miles, and lay all night at a 



