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Iquare, whither the young of both fexes repaired, as 
well as the old and middle aged : this frolick conti- 
nued all night. 
The White King of Talahafochte is a middle aged 
man, of moderate ftature ; and though of a lofty and 
jnajeftic countenance and deportment, yet I am con- 
vinced this dignity, which really feerns graceful, is 
not the effedt of vain fupercilious pride, for his fmil- 
ing countenance and his cheerful familiarity belpeak 
magnanimity and benignity. 
Next a council and treaty was held. They re- 
queued to have a trading houfe again eilablilhed in 
the town, alluring us that every poiTible means fhould 
conflantly be puriued to prevent any dilturbance in 
future on their part; they informed us that the mur- 
derers of M c Gee * and his alTociates were to be put 
to death, that two of them were already (hot, and 
they were in purfuit of the other. 
Our chief trader in anfwer informed them, that 
the re-eltablilhrnent of friendlhip and trade was the 
chief objedt of his vifit, and that he v/as happy to 
find his old friends of Talahafochte in the fame good 
difpofition, as they ever were towards him and the 
white people; that it was his wifh to trade with 
them, and that he was now come to colledt his pack- 
horfes to bring them goods. The king and the 
chiefs having been already acquainted with my bu~ 
frnefs and purfuits amongft them, received me very 
kindly; the king in particular complimented me, 
* M‘Gee was the leader of a family of white people from Georgia deftined 
acrofs the lllhmus, to the Mobile river : they travelled on horfe-back as far as, 
this town, where they procured canoes of the Indians, continuing their travels, 
defending the river and coafting the main S. W. ; but at night, when on ftiore. 
hunting provifions, their camp was lurprifed and attacked by a predatory band of 
Indians, who flew M‘Gee and the reft of the men, and carried oif the plunder and 
a woman to their towns. 
faying 
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