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TRAVELS IN 
The trader of the town of Talahafochte informed 
me, that he had, when trading in that town, large 
fupplies of goods from thefe Spanifh trading veffels, 
fuitable for that trade, and fome very efiential ar- 
ticles, on more advantageous terms than he could 
purchafe at Indian (lores either in Georgia or St. 
Auguftine. 
Towards the evening after the fultry heats were 
patt, a young man of our company having previ- 
ous 1 y procured the loan of a canoe from an Indian, 
propoied to me a hfhing excurfion for trout with 
the bob. We fet off down the river, and before 
we had palfed two miles, caught enough for our 
houihold : he was an excellent hand at this kind of 
diverfion : fome of the fifh were fo large and ftrong 
in their element, as to fhake his arms ftoutly and 
diag us with the canoe over the floods before we 
got them in. It is in the eddy coves, under the 
points and turnings of the river, where the fur- 
face of the waters for fome acres is covered with 
the leaves of the Nymphezr, Piflia, and other am- 
phibious herbs and grafs, where the haunts and re- 
treats of this f amous rim are, as well as others of va- 
rious tribes. 
Obferving a hfhing canoe of Indians turning a 
point below and coming towards us, who hailed us, 
we waited their coming up ; they were cheerful 
merry fellows, and infilled on our accepting of part 
of their fHh ; they having a greater quantity and va- 
riety, efpecially of the bream, my favourite fiifi, we 
exchanged fome of our trout with them. 
Our chief being engaged with the chiefs of the 
town in commercial concerns, and others of our 
company out in the forefts with the Indians, hunt- 
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