NORTH AMERICA* 
ftomachs keen, with contented minds ; under no 
controul, but what reafon and ordinate paffions dic- 
tated, far removed from the feats of ftrife. 
Our fituation was like that of the primitive (late 
of man, peaceable, contented, and fociabie. The 
fimple and neceffary calls of nature being faiisfied, 
we were altogether as brethren of one family, ft ran- 
gers to envy, malice, and rapine. 
The night being over we arofe, and purfued our 
courfe up the river ; and in the evening reached the 
trading-houfe, Spalding's upper flore, where I took 
up my quarters for feveral weeks. 
On our arrival at the upper ftore, we found it 
occupied by a white trader, who had for a compa- 
nion a very handfome Siminole young woman. Her 
father, who was a prince by the name of the White 
Captain, was an old chief of the Sirninoles, and with 
part of his family, to the number of ten or twelve, 
was encamped in an orange grove near the ftores, 
having lately come in from a hunt. 
This white trader, foon after our arrival, deli- 
vered up the goods and ftore-houfes to my compa- 
nion, and joined his father-in-law's camp, and foon 
after went away into the forefts on hunting and tra- 
ding among ft the flying camps of Siminoles. 
He is at this time unhappy in his connexions with 
his beautiful favage. It is but a few years imce he 
came here, I think from north Carolina, a flout 
genteel well-bred man, active, and of a heroic and 
amiable difpofition ; and by his induftry, honefty, 
and engaging manners, had gained the affections of 
the Indians, and foon made a little fortune by traffic 
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