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banks and fhoals of Ship and Horn iflands, and 
the high and bold coaft of Biloxi on the main, got 
through the narrow pafs Aux Chriftians, and foon 
came up abreaft of Ille Dauphin, betwixt whofe 
Ihoals and the Weft Cape of Mobile Bay we got 
aground on fome funken oyfter banks ; but next 
day a brifk Southerly wind raifed the fea on the 
coaft, which lifted us off again, and fetting fail, we 
(hot through the Pafs au Oleron, and entering the 
bay, by night came to anchor fafe again at the city 
of Mobile. 
After having made up my collections of grow- 
ing roots, feeds and curious fpecimens, left them 
to the care of Ifeffrs. Swanfon and M'Gillavry, 
to be forwarded to Dr. Fothergiil of London. I 
prepared to fet off again to Augufta in Georgia, 
through the Creek Nation, the only practicable 
way of returning by land, being fruftrated of 
purfuing my intended rout which I had meditat- 
ed, through the territories of the Siminoles or 
Lower Creeks, they being a treacherous people^ 
lying fo far from the eye and controul of the na- 
tion with whom they are confederate, that there 
had lately been depredations and murders com- 
mitted by them at the bay of Apalache, on fome 
families of white people who were migrating from 
Georgia, with an intention of fen ling on the 
Mobile. Having to pafs the diftance of near 
two hundred miles to the firft town of the na- 
tion, through a folitary, uninhabited wildernefs, 
the bloody field of Schambe, where thofe con- 
tending bands of American bravos, Creeks and 
Chactaws, often meet in dire conflict ; for the 
better convenience and fecurity, I joined company 
with a caravan of traders, now about fetting oil for 
the nation. 
Obferved 
