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gacli other ; and before night I flruck up a bar- 
gain with them for a handfome flrong young 
horfe, which cofl me about ten pounds flerling. 
I was now conflrained to leave my old Have be- 
hind, to feed in rich cane paflures, where he was 
to remain and recruit until the return of his new 
mailer from Mobile ; from whom I extorted a 
promife to ufe him gently, and if poffible, not to 
make a pack-horfe of him. 
Next morning we decamped, proceeding again 
on my travels, now alert and cheerful. Croffed a 
brifk rivulet ripling over a gravelly bed, and 
winding through aromatic groves of the Illicium 
Floridanum, then gently defcended to the high 
forefts, leaving Deadman’s creek, for at this 
creek a white man was found dead, fuppofed to 
have been murdered, from which circumflance 
it has its name. 
A few days before we arrived at the Nation, 
we met a company of emigrants from Georgia ; 
a man, his wife, a young woman, feveral young 
children, and three flout young men, with about 
a dozen horfes loaded with their property. The}?' 
informed us their defign was to fettle on the 
Alabama, a few miles above the confluence of 
the Tombigbe. 
Being now near the Nation, the chief trader 
with another of our company fat off a-head for 
his town, to give notice to the Nation, as he laid, 
of his approach with the merchandize, each of 
them taking the befl horfe they could pick out 
of the gang, leaving the goods to the conduft 
and care of the young Muflee and mvfelf. Early 
in the evening we came to the banks of a large 
deep creek, a confiderable branch of the Ala- 
bama : 
