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which is incefiantly urged and continued as long 
as the miferable creatures are able to move for- 
ward ; and then come to camp, though fre- 
quently in the middle of the afternoon, which is 
the pleafantell time of the day for travelling : 
and every horfe has a bell on, which being hop- 
ped when we Hart in the morning with a twill of 
grafs or leaves, foon (hakes out, and they are 
never hopped again during the day. The con- 
hant ringing and clattering of the bells, fmack- 
ing of the whips, whooping and too frequent 
curling thefe miferable quadrupeds, caufe an in- 
cedant uproar and confulion, inexpreflibly difa- 
0 
After three days travelling in this mad man- 
ner, my old fervant was on the point of giving 
out, and feveral of the company’s horfes were 
tired, but were relieved of their burthens by the 
led horfes which attended for that purpofe. I 
was now driven to difagreeable extremities, and 
had no other alternative, but either to leave my 
horfe in the woods, pay a very extravagant hire 
for a doubtful paffage to the Nation, or feparate 
myfelf from my companions, and wait the reco- 
very of my horfe alone : the chief gave me no 
other comfortable advice in this dilemma, than 
that, there was a company of traders on the road 
a-head of us from the Nation, to Mobile, who 
had a large gang of led horfes with them for fale, 
when they lliould arrive ; and expected from the 
advice which he had received at Mobile before 
we fet off from thence, that this company mull 
be very near to us, and probably would be up 
to-morrow, or at lead in two or three days : and 
this man condefcended fo far as to moderate a 
little his mode of travelling, that I might have a 
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