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Soon after entering the for efts, we were met to 
the path by a frnall company of Indians, failing: 
and beckoning to us long before we joined them. 
This was a family of Talahafochte who had been 
out on a hunt, and were returning home loaded 
with barbecued meaty hides and honey. Their com- 
pany confifted of the man, his wife and children, 
well mounted on fine horfes, with a number of 
pack-horfes. The man prefently offered us a fawn- 
fid n of honey, which we gladly accepted* and at 
parting I prefented him with forne filli hooks, few- 
ing needles, &c. 3 for in my travels amongfl the In- 
dians, I always furniflied myfelf with fuch ufeful 
and acceptable little articles of light carriage, for 
prefents. We parted, and before night rejoined 
our companion at the Long Pond. 
On our return to camp in the evening, we were 
fainted by a party of young Indian warriors, who 
had pitched their camp on a green eminence near 
the lake, and at a fatal! diilance from our camp, 
under a little grove of Oaks and Palms. This 
company confifted of feven young Siminoles, under 
the condudt of a young prince or chief ofTalaha- 
fochte, a town fouthward in the ifthmus. They were 
all dreffed and painted with lingular elegance, and 
richly ornamented with fiver plates, chains, &c. 
after the Siminole mode, with waving plumes of 
feathers on their crefts. On our coming up to 
them, they arofe and fhook hands 3 we alighted and 
fat a while with them by their cheerful fire. 
The young prince informed our chief that he 
was in purfuit of a young fellow, who had fled 
Pom the town, carrying off with him one of his fa- 
vourite young wives or concubines. He faid mer- 
rily he would have the ears of both of them before 
he 
