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17$ TRAVELS IN 
Our encampment was fixed on the fite of the old 
Ocone town, which, about fixty years ago, was 
evacuated by the Indians, who, finding their fitua- 
tion difagreeable from its vicinity to the white peo- 
ple, left it, moving upwards into the Nation or 
Upper Creeks, and there built a town ; bat that 
fituation not fuiting " their roving difpofition, they 
grew fickly and tired of it, and refolved to feek an 
habitation more agreeable to their minds. They all 
arofe, directing their migration South-Eaftward to- 
wards the fea-coafl ; and in the courfe of their jour- 
ney, obferving the delightful appearance of the ex~ 
tenfive plains of Alachua and the fertile hills envi- 
roning it, they fat down and built a town on the 
banks of a fpacious and beautiful lake, at a fmall 
diflance from the plains, naming this new town, 
Cufcowilla : this fituation pieafed them, the vafl 
dcfarts, forefls, lake, and favannas around, affoid- 
ing unbounded range of the be ft hunting ground 
for bear and deer, their favourite game. But al- 
though this fituation was heakhy and delightful to 
the utmoft degree, affording them variety and 
plenty of every defirable thing in their eilimarion, 
yet troubles and afflictions found them out. This 
territory, to the promontory of Florida, was then 
claimed by the Tomocas, Utinas, Caloofas, Ya- 
mafes and other remnant tribes of the ancient Flo- 
ridans and the more Northern refugees, driven 
away by the Carolinians, now in alliance and under 
the protection of the Spaniards, who affifiing them ? 
attacked the new fettlement and for many year^ 
were very troublefome ; but the Alachuas or Ocones 
being ftrengthened by other emigrants and fugi- 
tive bands from the Upper Creeks, with whom they 
were confederated, and who gradually ePiablimed 
other towns in this low country, flretching a line of 
fettlements acrofs the ifthmus, extending from the 
Alatamaha 
