TRAVELS IN 
balls, its feed being their favourite food. The 
trunks of thefe trees, when hallowed out, make 
large and durable petdaugers and canoes, and af- 
ford excellent fhingles, boards, and other timber, 
adapted to every purpofe in frame buildings. When 
the planters fell thefe mighty trees, they raife a 
flage round them, as high as to reach above the 
buttreftes; on this ftage, eight or ten negroes 
afcend with their axes, and fall to work round its 
trunk. I have feen trunks of thefe trees that would 
meafure eight, ten, and twelve feet in diameter,, 
for forty and fifty feet flraight fhaft. 
As I continued coafting the Indian ftiore of this 
bay, on doubling a promontory, I fuddenly faw be- 
fore me an Indian fettlement, or village. It was a 
fine fmuation, the bank rifing gradually from the 
water. There were eight or tea habitations, in a 
row, or ftreet, fronting the water, and about fifty 
yards diftance from it. Some of the youth were 
naked, up to their hips in the water, fifhing with 
rods and lines ; whilft others, younger, were divert- 
ing themfelves in fhooting frogs with bows and ar- 
rows. On my near approach, the little children 
took to their heels, and ran to fome women who 
were hoeing corn ; but the ftouter youth flood 
their ground, and, fmiling, called to me. As I 
palled along, I obferved fome elderly people re- 
clined on fkins fpread on die ground, under the 
cool fhade of fpreading Oaks and Palms, that were 
ranged in front of their houfes : they arofe, and 
eyed me as I palled, but perceiving that I kept on 
without flopping, they refumed their former po- 
fttion. They were civil, and appeared happy in 
their fituation. 
There v/as a large Orange grove at the upper 
end 
