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my and a fpy amongft them, and fecretly refolved 
to difpatch him. The young philofophcr got no- ' 
tice of their fufpicions, and hofcile intentions, in 
time to make his efcape ; though clofely purfued, 
he kept a-head of his fanguinary purfuers, arrived 
at Mobile, and threw himielf under the protection 
of the Englifh, entered the fervice of the trader of 
MucclafTe, who was then fetting off for the Nation, 
and notwithstanding the fpeed with which we tra- 
velled, narrowly efcaped the ardour and vigilance 
of his purfuing enemies, who furprifed a company 
of emigrants, in the defarus of Schambe, the very 
night after we met them, expecting to intercept 
him thereabout. 
The young traveller having learned all their moft 
celebrated new fongs and poetry, at a great dance 
and feflival in the MucclafTe, a day or two after 
our arrival, the youth preffed him to give out fome 
of his new fongs : he complied with their entrea- 
ties, and the fongs and dance went round with 
harmony and eclat. There was a young Chactaw 
Have girl in the circle, who foon after difcovered 
very affecting fcnfations of affliction and diftrefs 
of mind, and before the conclufion of the dance, 
many of her companions complimented her with 
fympathetic fighs and tears, from their own fpark- 
ling eyes. As foon as I had an opportunity, I 
inquired of the young Orpheus, the caufe of 
that fong being fo diftreffing ,to the young flave. 
He replied, that when (he was lately taken cap- 
tive, her father and brothers were (lain in the 
conteft, and me understanding the fenfe of the 
fong, called to remembrance the tragical fate of 
her family, and could riot forbear weeping at the 
recital. 
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