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which were left fending on the bank of a line 
creek, that, from this place, took a flow ferpen- 
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tine courfe through the plantati on. We prefendy 
took fome fife, one kind of which is very beau- 
tiful; they call it the red- belle. It is as large as a 
man’s hand, nearly oval and thin, being com prefect 
on each fide ; the tail is beautifully formed ; the 
top of the head and back of an olive green, be- 
fprinkled with rufet fpecks ; the fidds of a fea 
green, inclining to azure, infenfibly blended with 
the olive above, and beneath lightens to a fllvery 
white, or pearl colour, elegantly powdered v/ith 
fpecks of the fined green, rufet and gold ; the 
belly is of a bright fcaiiet red, or vermilion, dart- 
ing up rays or fiery ftreaks into the pearl on each 
fide ; the ultimate angle of the branchiofcega ex- 
tends backwards with a long fpatula, ending with 
a round or oval particoloured fpot, reprefenting 
the eye in the long feathers of a peacock’s train, 
verged round with a thin flame-coloured mem- 
brane, and appears like a brilliant ruby fixed on 
the fide of the flfh ; the eyes are large, encircled 
with a fiery iris ; they are a voracious fife, and are 
eaflly caught with a fuitable bait. 
The next morning 1 took leave of this worthy 
family, and fat off for the fettlements on the Ala- 
tamaha, fell purfuing the high road for Fort Bar- 
rington, till towards noon, when I turned off to 
the left, following the road to Darian, a fetdement 
on the river twenty miles lower down, and near 
the coaft. The fore part of this day’s journey was 
pleafant, the plantations frequent, and the roads in 
tolerable good repair ; but the country being now 
lefs cultivated, the roads became bad. I purfued my 
journey almoft continually through fwamps and 
creeks, waters of Newport and Sapello, till night. 
