44& TRAVELS m 
where I tarried fome time with Mr. Germany 
the chief trader of the town, an elderly gentle- 
mail, but active, cheerful and very agreeable, who 
received and treated me with the utmoft civility and 
friendihip : his wife is a Creek woman, of a very 
amiable and worthy charter and difpofition, in- 
duftrious, prudent and affectionate ; and by her he 
had feveral children, whom he is defirous to fend 
to Savanna or Charlefton, for their education, but 
cannot prevail on his wife to confent to it : this 
affair affects him very fenfibly, for he has accumu- 
lated a pretty fortune by his induftry and commend- 
able conduct. 
Leaving Coolome, I re-croffed the river afc 
Tuccabache, an ancient and large town ; thence 
continued up the river, and at evening arrived at 
Attaffe, where I continued near a week, waiting 
the prepaiations of the traders, with' whom I was 
to join in company to Augufta. 
The next day after my arrival, I was introduced 
to the ancient chiefs, at the public fquare or 
areopagus ; and in the evening, in company with 
the traders, who are numerous in this town, re- 
paired to the great rotunda, where were jaffembled 
the greater! number of ancient venerable chiefs 
and warriors that I had ever beheld : we fpent the 
evening and greater part of the night together, in 
drinking Caffme and fmoking Tobacco. The great 
council houfe or rotunda is appropriated to much 
the fame purpofe as the public fquare, but more 
private, and feems particularly dedicated to poli- 
tical affairs ; women and youth are never admitted ; 
and I fuppofe it is death for a female to prelum e to 
enter the door, or approach within its pale. It is a 
vail conical building or circular dome, capable of 
accommo- 
