TRAVELS IN 
I faw a young Indian in the Nation, who when 
prefent, and beholding the fcenes of mad intem- 
perance and folly acted by the white men in the 
town, clapped his hand to his breaft, and with 
a frnile, looked aloft as if ftruck with aflonifh- 
ment, and wrapt in love and adoration to the 
Deity ; as who mould fay, " O thou Great and 
Good Spirit ! we are indeed fenfible of thy benig- 
nity and favour to us red men, in denying us the 
ixnderftanding of white men. We did not know 
before they came amongfb us that mankind could 
become fo bafe, and fall fo below the dignity of 
their nature. Defend us from their manners, law$ 
and power." 
The Mufcogulges, with their confederates, the 
Chaclaws, Chicafaws, and perhaps the Cherokees ? 
eminently deferve the encomium of all nations, for 
their wifdom and virtue in refilling and even re- 
pelling the greater!, and even the common enemy of 
mankind, at leaft of moffc of the European nations, I 
mean fpirituous ltquors. 
The firfl and mofl cogent article in all their 
treaties with the white people, is, that there fhall 
not be any kind of fpirituous liquors fold or brought 
into their towns ; and the traders are allowed but 
two kegs (five gallons each) which is fuppofed to 
be fufficierit for a company, to ferve them on the 
road ; and if any of this remains on their approach- 
ing the towns, they mud fpill it on the ground or 
fecrete it on the road, for it muft not come into 
the town. s 
On my journey from Mobile to the Nation, juft * 
after we had parted the junction of the Penfacola 
road with our path, two young traders overtook 
us on their way £o the Nation. We inquired 
what; 
