TRAVELS IN' 
clofiire, and is worked and tended by the whole 
community ; yet every family has its particular 
part, according to its own appointment, marked off 
when planted ; and this porrion receives the com- 
mon labour and afliftance until ripe, when each fa- 
mily gathers and depofits in its granary its own pro- 
per fhare, fetting apart a fmall gift or contribution 
for the public granary, which ftands in the centre of 
the plantation. 
The youth, under the fupervifal of fome of their 
ancient people, are daily flattened in their fields,, 
and are continually whooping and hallooing, to 
chafe away crows, jackdaws, black-birds, and fuch 
predatory animals; and the lads are armed with 
bows and arrows, and being trained up to it from 
their early youth, are fure at a mark, and in the 
courfe of the day load themfelves with fquirrels, 
birds, &c. The men in turn patrole the coni 
fields at night, to protect their provifions from the 
depredations of night rovers, as bears, raccoons, 
and deer ; the two former being immoderately fond 
of young corn, when the grain is filled with a rich 
milk, as fweet and nourifhing as cream; and the 
deer are as fond of the Potatoe vines. 
After the feafl was over, we returned to our en- 
campment on the great favanna, towards the even- 
ing. Our companions, whom we left at the camp, 
were impatient for our return, having been out 
horfe hunting in the plains and groves during our 
abfence. They foon left us, on a vifit to the town, 
having there fome female friends, with whom they 
were anxious to renew their acquaintance. The 
Siminole girls are by no means deftitute of charms 
to pleafe the rougher fex : the white traders are 
fully fenfible how greatly it is for their advantage 
to 
