K0RTH AMERICA-, 
CHAP. XL 
After the predatory band of Siminoles, under 
the conduct of the Long Warrior, had decamped, 
Mr. M'Latche invited me with him on a vifit to an 
Indian town,, about twelve miles. diltanee from the 
trading-houfe, to regale ourfelves at a feaft of Wa- 
ter Melons and Oranges, the Indians having brought 
a canoe load of them to the trading-houfe the day 
preceding, which they difpofed of to the traders, 
This was a circumftance pretty extraordinary to me ? 
it being late in September a feafon of the year when 
the Citruels are ripe and gone in Georgia and Caro- 
lina ; but here the weather yet continued hot and 
fultry, and confequently this cool, exhilarating 
fruit was Hill in high relifh and eftimation. 
After breakfafting, having each of us a SIminole 
horfe completely equipped, we fat off : the ride 
was agreeable and varioully entertaining. We 
kept no road or pathway constantly, but as Indian 
hunting tracks by chance fuited our courfe, riding 
through high open, pine forells, green lawns and 
floWery favannas in youthful verdure and gaity, 
having been lately burnt, but now overrun with a 
green enamelled carpet, chequered with hcrnmocks 
of trees of dark green foliage, interfered with fer- 
pentine rivulets, their banks adorned with fhrub- 
beries of various tribes, as Andromeda formofifiima. 
And. nitida, And. viridis, And. calyculata, And. 
axillaris, Kalmia fpuria, Annona alba, &c. About 
noon we arrived at the town, the fame little village 
I palled 
