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rny and a fpy amongft them, and fecretly refolved 
to difpatch him. The young philofopher got 
notice of their fufpicions, and hoftile intentions, 
in time to make his efcape ; though clofely pur- 
fued, he kept a head of his fanguinary purfuers, 
arrived at Mobile, and threw himfelf under the 
protection of the Englifh, entered the fervice of 
the trader of Mucclafle, who was then fetting off 
for the Nation, and notwithftanding the fpeed 
with which we travelled, narrowly efcaped the 
ardour and vigilance of his purfuing enemies, who 
furprifed a company of emigrants, in the defarts 
of Schambe, the very night after we met them, 
expeCting to intercept him thereabout. 
The young traveller having learned all their 
molt celebrated new fongs and poetry, at a great 
dance and feftival in the Mucclaffe, a day or two 
after our arrival, the youth preffed him to give 
out fome of his new fongs * he complied with 
their entreaties, and the fongs and dance went 
round with harmony and eclat. There was a 
young ChaCtaw Have girl in the circle, who foon 
after difeovered very affeCting fenfations of af- 
fliction and diftrefs of mind, and before the com- 
clufion of the dance, many of her companions 
complimented her with fympathetic fighs and 
tears, from their own fparkling eyes. As foon 
as 1 had an opportunity, I inquired of the young 
Orpheus, the caufe of that fong being fo diftreff- 
ing to the young Have. He replied, that when 
fhe was lately taken captive, her father and bro- 
thers were flain in the conteft, and fhe under- 
Handing the fenfe of the fong, called to remem- 
brance the tragical fate of her family, and could 
not forbear weeping at the recital* 
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