NORTH AMERICA. 6l 
C HAP. II. 
The veffel in which I was to embark for Eail 
Florida, being now ready, to purfue her voyage, we 
fat' fail with a fair wind and tide. Our courfe was 
fouth, through the found, betwixt a chain of fea- 
coaH-dflands, and the main. In the evening we 
came to, at the fouth end of St. Simon’s, having 
been hindered by the flood tide making againit us. 
The captain and myfelf, with one of our crew, went 
on fhore, with a view of getting fome venifon and 
fea fowl. We had not the good fortune to fee any 
deer, yet we were not altogether unfuccefsful, hav- 
ing taken three young racoons (Urfus cauda elan- 
gata) which are excellent meat : we had them for 
fupper, ferved up in a pillo. Next morning early, 
we again got under way, running by Jekyl and 
Cumberland Iffends, large, beautiful, and fertile, yet 
thinly inhabited, and confequently excellent haunts 
for deer, bears, and other game. 
As we ran by Cumberland I fie, keeping the chan- 
nel through the found, we faw a fail a head coming 
up towards us. Our captain knew it to be the 
trading fchooner from the -"{lores on St. John’s, and 
immediately predicted bad news, as fhe was not to 
fail until our arrival there. As fhe approached us, 
his apprehenfions were more and more confirmed, 
from the appearance of a number of paffengers on 
deck. We laid to, until fhe came up, when we. 
hailed her, “ What news ?” cc Bad ; the Indians 
have plundered the upper flore, and the traders have 
efcaped, only with their lives.” Upon this both 
veffels came to anchor very near each other, when, 
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