TRAVELS Iff 
Soon after entering the forefts, we were met m 
the path by a fmall company of Indians, fmiling 
and beckoning to us long before we joined them. 
This was a family of Talahafochte who had been 
out on a hunt, and were returning home loaded 
with barbecued meat, hides and honey. Their com- 
pany confided of the man, his wife and children, 
well mounted on fine horfes, with a number of 
pack-horfes. The man prefently offered us a fawn- 
ikin of honey, which we gladly accepted, and at 
parting I prefented him with fome fxffi hooks, few- 
ing needles, &c. y for in my travels amongft the In» 
dians, I always furnifhed myfelf with fuch ufeful 
and acceptable little articles of light carriage, for 
prefents. We parted, and before night rejoined 
our companion at the Long Pond. 
On our return to camp in the evening, we were 
faluted by a party of young Indian warriors, who 
had gitched their camp on a green eminence near 
the lake, and at a fmall diftance from our camp, 
under a little grove of Oaks and Palms. This 
company confifted of feven young Siminoles, under 
the conduct of a young prince or chief of Talaha- 
fochte, a town fouthward in the iflhmus. They were 
all dreffed and painted with fmgular elegance, and 
richly ornamented with filver plates, chains, &c. 
after the Siminole mode, with waving plumes of 
feathers on their crefts. On our coming up to 
them 3 they arofe and fhook hands ; we alighted and 
fat a w hile with them by their cheerful fire. 
The young prince informed our chief that he 
was in purfuit of a young fellow, who had fled 
from the town, carrying off withjiim one of his fa- 
vourite young wives or concubines. He faid mer- 
rily he would have the ears of both of them before 
' ; he 
