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the Savannahs: As we were leaving the Town on 

 the 7th, there was an old Prieft who could hardly 

 creep, at whom Pedro fired his Gun, but feeing it 

 had not done any Execution, he took up a great 

 Stone and beat the poor Fellows Brains out, which 

 Barbarity the white Men much difliked \ then we 

 fired the Town, wherein I guefs there might be a- 

 bout nine hundred Houfes, but one Church ; it lyes 

 from Caledonia S. W. about fixteen Leagues ; fo 

 that our defign in marching fo far about, was to 

 come upon them undifcovered. Indeed, fuch a 

 March, was never undertaken before, by any, but 

 fome French Py rates, who after they went fome 

 part of the way, returned again. 

 . Having got over the Savannah on the 7th, we 

 were the three fucceeding Days much incommoded 

 in our March, efpecially with our fick Men \ but on 

 the eleventh, we got up to a large Indian Town, 

 where we joyned all together; but the Indians were 

 very unkind to us, for we could get little of any 

 fort of Provifions without ten times the value of 

 it ; fo that fcarcity began to creep in among us, 

 moft of our Shoes were worn out: fo that forty 

 or fifty Shillings was a common Price for an old 

 pair-, others gave as much to have their Guns 

 carry'd \ if we had fuch a Train of Women after 

 us, as ufually follows a Camp, they might have 

 got more Plunder, than forty fhares amounted to, 

 for any thing above a Pound weight was fo trouble- 

 fome, that it was furely flung away it is indeed 

 almoft incredible what Hardfhip we endured, we 

 having throughout the whole Expedition, except 

 when at the Town, endured exceflive hunger, 

 travelling ftill over nothing but Mountains and 

 Rivers, lying always in the Rain, for we never had 

 it fair in the Night, and nothing to comfort us. 

 Things .went no better with us the fucceeding 

 Days, but at length on the eighteenth we arrived 



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