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to fociety. Each of our purfuits was perhaps equally 
laudable ; and upon this fuppofition, I was quite 
willing to part with him upon amicable terms. 
My little veffel being furnifhed with a good fail, 
and having hilling tackle, a neat light fufee, pow- 
der and ball, 1 found myfelf well equipped for my 
voyage, about one hundred miles to the trading 
houfe. 
I croffed the river to a high promontory of 
wood-land, on the weft IBore, and being ftruck with 
the magnificence of a venerable grove of Live Oak, 
Palms, and Laurel (Magnolia grandiflora) I ftepped 
on fhore to take a view of the place. Orange trees 
were in full bloom, and filed the air with fra- 
grance. 
It was nov/ paft noon, and this place being about 
eight miles above the Cow-ford, and the river near 
three miles in breadth, I wanted to reach a planta- 
tion in fight, on the oppohte fhore, in order to get 
fome repairs, my veffel having fuftained fome da- 
mage from the violence of the wind, in crofting 
over. I arrived late in the evening, and finding a 
convenient landing-place and harbour, I concluded 
to remain here till morning, and then coaft it clofe 
along fhore to the plantation. 
It beginning to thunder, I was fufHciently warn- 
ed to prepare againft a wet night; and obferving 
a very large Oak tree, which had been thrown 
down by a hurricane, and offered me a convenient 
fhelter, as its enormous limbs bore up the trunk 
a fufficient height from the earth to admit me to 
fit or lie down under it, I fpread my fail, flaming 
from the trunk of the tree to the ground, on the 
windward 
