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of different clafTes, as martial, bacchanalian and 
amorous; which laft, I muft confefs, are extra- 
vagantly libidinous ; and they have moral fongs, 
which feem to be the moil efteemed and pracftif- 
ed, and anfwer the purpofe of religious le&ures. 
Some of their moft favourite fongs and dances, 
they have from their enemies, theCha<ftaws; for it 
teems thefe people are very eminent forpoetry and 
mufic; every town amongft them ftrives to excel 
each other in compofing new fongs for dances ; 
and by a cuftom amongft them, they muft have 
at leaft one new fong, for exhibition, at every 
annual bulk. 
The young muftee, who came with me to the 
Mucclafles from Mobile, having Chadlaw blood 
in his veins from his mother, was a fenfible young 
fellow, and by his father had been inftru&ed in 
reading, ’writing and arithmetic, and could fpeak 
Englifti very well. He took it into his head to 
travel into the Chadtaw country : his views were 
magnanimous, and his defigns in the higheft de- 
gree commendable, nothing lefs than to inform 
himfelf of every fpecies of arts and fciences, that 
might be of ufe and advantage when introduced 
into his own country, but more particularly mu- 
fic and poetry. With thefe views he privately 
left the Nation, went to Mobile, and there en- 
tered into the fervice of the trading company to 
the Chacftaws, as a white man ; his eafy, com- 
municative, a<ftive and familiar difpofition and 
manners, being agreeable to that people, pro- 
cured him accefs every where, and favoured his 
fubtilty and artifice : at length, however, the 
Cha<ftaws hearing of his lineage and confangui- 
nity with the Creeks, by the father’s fide, pro- 
nounced him a Creek, and confequently an ene- 
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