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This day we passed tlirougli several swamps, 

 and going not above a dozen miles came to a 

 cabin, the master whereof used to trade amongst 

 the English. He told ns if we would stay two 

 nights, he would conduct us safe to them, himself 

 designing, at that time, to go and fetch some rum ; 

 so we resolved to tarry for his company. During 

 our stay, there happened to be a young woman 

 troubled with fits. The doctor who was sent for 

 to assist her, laid her on her belly and made a 

 small incision with rattle snake teeth ; then 

 laying his mouth to the place, he sucked out 

 near a quart of black conglutinated blood and 

 serum. Our landlord gave us the tail of a be- 

 ver, which was a choice food. There happen- 

 ed also to be a burial of one of their dead, which 

 ceremony is much the same with that of the San- 

 tees, who make a great feast at the interment of 

 their corpse. The small runs of water hereabout 

 aflbrd great plenty of crawfish, full as large as 

 those in England, and nothing inferior in good- 

 ness, i 



Saturday morning, our patron, with Enoe "Will 

 and his servant, set out with us for the English. 

 In the afternoon we ferried over a river, in a ca- 

 noe, called by the Indians Chattookau, which is 

 the north-west branch of Keus river. We lay in 

 the swamp, where some Indians invited us to go 

 to their quarters, which some of our company ac- 

 cepted, but got nothing extraordinary, except a 

 dozen miles' march out of their way. The coun- 



