HOKTH AMERICA. 
arms, yet magnanimous and merciful to a van- 
quiflaed enemy, when he fubmits and feeks their 
friendfhip and protection : always uniting the 
vanquifhed tribes in confederacy with them ; 
when they immediately enjoy, unexceptionably, 
every right of free citizens, and are from that 
moment united in one common band of brother- 
hood. They were never known to exterminate a 
tribe, except the Yamafees, who would never 
fubmit on any terms, but fought it out to the lad, 
only about forty or fifty of them elcaping at the 
lad decifive battle, who threw themfelves under 
the protection of the Spaniards at St. Auguftine. 
According to their own account, which I be- 
lieve to be true, after their arrival in this coun- 
try, they joined in alliance and perpetual amity 
with the Britifh colonids of South Carolina and 
Georgia, which they never openly violated ; but 
on the contrary, purified every ftep to ftrengthen 
the alliance ; and their aged chiefs to this day, 
fpeak of it with tears of joy, and exult in that 
memorable tranfaClion, as one of the mod glo- 
rious events in the annals of their nation. 
As an indance of their ideas of political impar- 
tial j udice, and homage to the Supreme Being, as 
the high arbiter of human tranfaClions, who alone 
claims the right of taking away the life of man, I 
beg leave to offer to the reader's confederation, 
the following event, as I had it from the mouth 
of a Spaniard, a refpeCtable inhabitant of Ead 
Florida. 
The fori of the Spanifh governor of St. An- 
gudine, together with two young gentlemen, his 
friends and affociates, conceived a defign of 
amufing themfelves in a party of fport, at hunt- 
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