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time! plenty of delicious and healthful food, our 
Gomachs keen, with contented minds; under no 
controul, but what reafon and ordinate paffions die- 
tated, far removed from the feats of Grife. 
Our fituation was like that of the primitive Gate 
of man, peaceable, contented, and fociable. The 
fimple and neceffary calls of nature being fatlsfted, 
we were altogether as brethren of one family, Gran- 
gers to envy, malice, and rapine. 
The night being over we arofe, and purfued our 
couife up the river; and in the evening reached the 
trading-houfe, Spalding’s upper Gore, where I took 
up my quarters for feveral weeks. 
On our arrival at the upper Gore, we found it 
occupied by a white trader, who had for a compa- 
nion a very handfome Siminole young woman. Her 
father, who was a prince, by the name of the White 
Captain, was an old chief of the Siminoles, and with 
part of his family, to the number of ten or twelve, 
was encamped in an orange grove near the Gores, 
having lately come in from a hunt. 
This white trader, foon after our arrival, deli- 
vered up the goods and Gore-houfes to my compa- 
nion, and joined his father-in-law’s camp, and foon 
after went away into the foreGs on hunting and tra- 
ding amongft the flying camps of Siminoles. 
He is at this time unhappy in his connexions with 
his beautiful favage. It is but a few years fince he 
came here, I think from North Carolina, a Gout 
genteel well-bred man, adtive, and of a heroic and 
amiable difpofition ; and by his induGry, honeGy, 
and engaging manners, had gained the aGedtions of 
the Indians, and foon made a little fortune by traffic 
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