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 It was useless to tarry here any longer ; moreover, the Third 



Journey. 



coloured man began to take ah'S, and fancied that I . 



Discharges 



could not do without him. I never admit of this in any "'^^ 



colour. 



expedition where I am commander ; and so I convinced 

 the man, to his sorrow, that 1 could do without him ; for 

 I paid him what I had agreed to give him, which amounted 

 to eight dollars, and ordered him back in his own curial 

 to Mrs. Peterson's, on the hill at the first falls. I then 

 asked the negro if there were any Indian settlements in 

 the neighbourhood ; he said he knew of one, a day and 

 a half off. We went in quest of it, and about one 

 o'clock the next day, the negro showed us the creek 

 where it was. 



The entrance was so concealed by thick bushes that a Reaches a 



creek and 



stranger would have passed it without knowing it to be i ndian set- 



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a creek. In gomg up it we found it dark, wmding, and 

 intricate beyond any creek that I had ever seen before. 

 When Orpheus came back Avith his young wife from 

 Styx, his path must have been similar to this, for Ovid 

 says it was 



" Arduus, obliquus, caligine densus opaca," 



and this creek was exactly so. 



When we had got about two -thirds up it, we met the 

 Indians going a fishing. I saw, by the way their things 

 were packed in the curial, that they did not intend 

 to return for some days. However, on telling them 

 wfeat we wanted, and by promising handsome presents 



