TRAVELS IN 
return to Georgia unti^ the autumn, I found I had 
time to purfue my travels in Florida, and might at 
leifure plan my excurfions to colled feeds and roots 
in boxes, &c. 
At this time the talks (or meffages between the 
Indians and white people) were perfectly peaceable 
and friendly, both with the Lower Greeks and the 
Nation or Upper Creeks. Parties of Indians were 
coming in every day with their hunts ; indeed the 
Mufcogulges or Upper Creeks very feldom difturb 
us. Bad talks from the Nation are always very fe- 
rious affairs, and to the utmoft degree alarming to 
the white inhabitants. 
The Mufcogulges are under a more ftricl: govern- 
ment or regular civilization than the Indians in ge- 
neral. They lie near their potent and declared 
enemy, the Chactaws. Their country having a vaft 
frontier, naturally acceflible and open to the incur- 
lions of their enemies on all fides, they find them- 
felves under the neceffity of affociating in large po- 
pulous towns, and thefe towns as near together as 
convenient, that they may be enabled to fuccour and 
defend one another in cafe of fudden invafion. This 
confequently occafions deer and bear to be fcarce 
and difficult to procure, which obliges them to be 
vigilant and induftrious ; this naturally begets care 
and ferious attention, which we may fuppofe in fome 
degree forms their natural difpofition and manners, 
and gives them that air of dignified gravity, fo flrik- 
ingly characleriftic in their aged people, and that 
fteadinels, juft and cheerful reverence in the middle 
aged and youth, which fits fo eafy upon them, and 
appears fo natural. For, however flrange it may 
appear to us, the fame moral duties which with us 
form 
