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Having obtained from the people here diredions 
for difcovering the little remote ifand where the 
traders and their goods were fee reted, which w as 
about feven miles higher tip, I fat fail again, with 
a fair wind, and in about one hour and an half 
arrived at the defired place, having fortunately 
taken the right channel of the river, amongft a 
multitude of others, occafioned by a number of 
low fwampy ifands. But I fSiould have run by the 
landing, if the centinels had not by chance feen 
me drawing near them; who perceiving that I 
was a white man, ventured to hail me ; upon which 
I immediately {truck fail, and came to. Upon my 
landing they eondudted me to their encampment^ 
forty or fifty yards from the river, in an aim oft 
impenetrable thicket. Upon my inquiry? they con- 
firmed the accounts of the amicable treaty at St. 
Auguftinc, and in confequence thereof, they had 
already removed great part of the goods to the 
trading- houfe, which was a few miles higher up, 
on the Indian fhore. They flowed me my chef:, 
which had been carefully preferved, and upon in* 
fpeddon I found every thing in good order. Having 
learned from them, that all the effects would, in a 
few days time, be removed to the ftore-houfe, I 
bid adieu to them, and in a little time arrived at 
the trading-houfe, where I was received with great 
politenefs, and treated, during a refidence of feve- 
ral months, with the utmoft civility and friend flip, 
by Mr. C. M c Latche, Meffrs. Spalding and KelfalTs 
agent. 
The river almof: from Charlotia, and for near 
twelve miles higher up, is divided into many chan- 
nels by a great number of iflands. 
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