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supply of provisions &c at St. Marys and then continued our 

 voyage to the St. Juan — This noble river we ascended as far 

 as Picolata, an old Spanish fortress, now in ruins, about loo 

 miles from its mouth, stopping occasionally at such places as 

 presented an inviting aspect & making short excursions into 

 the country on each side of the river — From Picolata we crossed 

 the country on foot to St. Augustine in order to present our pass- 

 ports to the Governor of the Province and to obtain from him 

 such information as might direct our further progress with the 

 greatest probability of success — From him we learned that on 

 account of the hostility of the Indians, it would be the extreme 

 of imprudence to venture any further up the river, but that in 

 the present state of things we would be more safe in exploring 

 the more southern rivers & coast, such as Mosquitto river &c 

 — We therefore returned disappointed to our little vessel & re- 

 traced our voyage to the mouth of the river with the intention 

 of going to Mosquitto river & perhaps as far as to Cape Florida, 

 but hearing that the Indians were troublesome in the south so 

 that we would be in great jeopardy there, we determined once 

 more to ascend the St. Juan as high as we had been before, & 

 again seek upon the adjacent country for all those subjects of 

 Nat. Hist, of which the acquisition was the sole object of our 

 undertaking. 



As we redescended the river we heard of parties of Indians 

 who had been committing depredations, & one person informed 

 us that a few days previous, his plantation was totally destroyed 

 by them & his son killed, he narrowly escaped with the re- 

 mainder of his family, & with the graze of a rifle ball on his 

 forehead the Indians then took the road to Picolata ; so that 

 we departed from that place in good time, as it seems probable 

 they went in quest of us — 



After remaining a few days at the mouth of the river to 

 make further collections we began our return voyage, we ex- 

 amined more in detail all the Georgia Sea Islands, re\'isited 

 Femandina in Amelia Isl*? ; St. Mar>-s, Savannah, Darien &c 

 — At Charleston we abandoned our Sloop & embarked on board 

 a packet Ship for this city, to which we have all returned in 

 good health & without any casualty. Thus, in consequence 

 of this most cruel & inhuman war that our government is un- 



