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of different claries, as martial, bacchanalian and 
amorous ; which laft, I muft confefs, are extrava- 
gantly libidinous ; and they have moral fongs, 
which feem to be the m oft e (teemed and practifed, 
and anfwer the purpofe of religious lectures. 
Some of their mo ft favourite fongs and dances, 
they have from their enemies, the Chaclaws ; for it 
feems thefe people are very eminent for poetry and 
mufic ; every town amongft them ftrives to excel 
each other in compofmg new fongs for dances 5 
and by a cuftom amongft them, they muft have at 
leaft one new fong, for exhibition, at every annual 
bufk. 
The young muftee, who came with me to the 
Mucclaffes from Mobile, having Chactaw blood 
in his veins from his mother, was a fenfible young 
fellow, and by his father had been inftructed in 
reading, writing and arithmetic, and could fpeak 
Englifti very well. He took it into his head to 
travel into the Chactaw country : his views were 
magnanimous, and his clefigns in the higheft de- 
gree commendable, nothing lefs than to inform 
himfelf of every fpecies of arts and fciences, that 
mieht be of ufe and advantage when introduced 
into his own country, but more particularly mu- 
fic and poetry. With thefe views he privately 
left the Nation, went to Mobile, and there en- 
tered into the fervice of the trading company to 
the Chaclaws, as a white man ; his eafy, com- 
municative, active, and familiar difpofition and 
manners, being agreeable to that people, pro- 
cured' him accefs every where, and favoured his 
fubtilty and artifice : at length, however, the 
Chaclaws hearing of his 'lineage and confangui- 
nity with the Creeks, by the father's fide, pro- 
nounced him a Creek, and confequently an ene- 
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