TRAVELS IN 
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thereof, a treaty took place between them, which 
has remained inviolable to this day. They never 
ceafed war againft the numerous and potent bands 
of Indians, who then furrounded and cramped the 
Englifh plantations, as the Savannas, Ogeeches, 
Wapoos, Santees, Yamafees, Utinas, Icofans, Pa- 
ticas, and others, until they had extirpated them. 
The Yamafees and their adherents lheltering them- 
felves under the power and protedtion of the Spa- 
niards of Eaft Florida, they purfued them to the 
very gates of St. Auguftine; and the Spaniards re- 
filling to deliver them up, thefe faithful intrepid al- 
lies had the courage to declare war againft them, 
and inceftantly periecuted them, until they entirely 
broke up and ruined their fettlements, driving them 
before them, till at length they were obliged to re- 
tire within the walls of St. Auguftine and a few in- 
ferior fortified pofts on the fea coaft. 
After a few days I returned to Broughton ifland. 
The Cherokees and their confederates being yet dis- 
contented, and on bad terms with the white people, 
it w 7 as unfa fe to purfue my travels in the north wef- 
tern regions of Carolina. And recolledting many 
fubjedts of natural hiftory, which I had obferved in 
the fouth of the ifthmus of Florida, when on a jour- 
ney fome years ago with my father, John Bartram, 
that were inte retting, and not taken notice of by 
any traveller > and as it was then in the autumn and 
winter, having reafon to think that very many cu- 
rious fuhjedts had efcaped our refearches; I now 
formed the refolution of travelling into Eaft Florida! 
according^, I immediately wrote to dodtor Po- 
ther gill, in order that he might know where to di- 
redt to me, . 
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