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each other; and before night I (truck up a bar- 
gain with them for a handfome ftrong young 
horfe, which cofl me about ten pounds (lerling, 
I was now conftrained to leave my old Have be- 
hind, to feed in rich cane paflures, where he was 
to remain and recruit until the return of his new 
matter from Mobile ; from whom I extorted a 
promife to ufe him gently, and if poilible, not to 
make a pack-horfe of him. 
Next morning we decamped, proceeding again, 
on my travels, now alert and cheerful. CrofTed a 
brifk rivulet ripling over a gravelly bed, and 
winding through aromatic groves of the Illiciuni 
Floridanum, then gently defcended to the high 
forefts, leaving Deadman's creek, for at this creek 
a white man was found dead, fuppofed to have 
been murdered, from which circumftance it has its 
name. 
A few days before we arrived at the Nation, we 
met a company of emigrants -from Georgia ; a 
man, his wife, a young woman, feveral young 
children, and three (lout young men, with about 
a dozen horfes loaded with their property. They 
informed us their defign was to fettle on the 
Alabama, a few miles above the confluence of the 
Tombigbe. 
Being now near the Nation, the chief trader 
with another of our company fat off a-head for 
his town, to give notice to the Nation, as he faid, 
of his approach with the merchandize, each of 
them taking the belt horfe they could pick out 
of the gang, leaving the goods to the conduct 
and care of the young Muftee and myfelf. Early 
in the evening we came to the banks of a large 
t deep creek, a confiderabje branch of the Ala- 
bama : 
