TRAVELS IN 
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Our encampment was fixed on the fite of the old 
Ocone town, which, about fixty years ago 5 was e- 
vacua ted by the Indians, who, finding their fitua- 
tion difagreeable from its vicinity to the white peo- 
ple, left it, moving upwards into the Nation or 
Upper Creeks, and there built a town ; but that fi- 
tuation not fuiting their roving difpofition, they 
grew fickly and tired of it, and refolved to feek an 
habitation more agreeable to their minds. They all 
arofe, dire&ing their migration South-Eaftward to- 
wards the fea coaftj and in the courfe of their jour- 
ney, obferving the delightful appearance of the ex- 
tenfive plains of Alachua and the fertile hills envi- 
roning it, they fat down and built a town on the 
banks of a fpacious and beautiful lake, at a fmall 
diftance from the plains, naming this new town, 
Cufcowilla : this fituation pleafed them, the vaft 
defarts, forefts, lake and favannas around, afford- 
ing unbounded range of the belt hunting ground 
for bear and deer, their favourite game. But al- 
though this fituation was healthy and delightful to 
the utmofl degree, affording them variety and 
plenty of every defirable thing in their eflimation* 
vet troubles and afflictions found them out. This 
territory, to the promontory of Florida, was then 
claimed by the Tomocos, Utinas, Calloofas, Ya- 
mafes and other remnant tribes of the ancient Flo- 
ridans and the more Northern refugees, driven 
away by the Carolinians, now in alliance and under 
the protection of the Spaniards, who affifting them, 
attacked the new fettlement and for many years 
were very troublefome ; but the Alachuas or Oco- 
nes being ftrengthened by other emigrants and 
fugitive bands from the Upper Creeks, with whom 
they were confederated,and who gradually efbablifhed 
other towns in this low country, ftretching a line of 
fettle ments acrofs the ifthmus, extending from the 
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