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Having obtained from the people here directions 
for difeovering the little remote ifiand where the 
traders and their goods were fecreted, which was 
about feven miles higher up, I fat fail again, with 
a fair wind, and in about one hour and an half 
arrived at the defired place, having fortunately 
taken the right channel of the river, amongfl a 
multitude of others, occafioned by a number of 
low fwampy iflands. But I fhould have run by the 
landing, if the centinels had not by chance feen 
me drawing near them ; who perceiving that I 
was a white man, ventured to hail me ; upon which 
I immediately {truck fail, and came to* Upon my 
landing they conducted me to their encampment, 
forty or fifty yards from the river, in an almofl 
impenetrable thicket. Upon my inquiry, they con- 
firmed the accounts of the amicable treaty at Sr. 
Auguftine, and in confequence thereof, they had 
already removed great part of the goods to the 
trading- houfe, which was a few miles higher up, 
on the Indian fhore. They (bowed me my cheft, 
which had been carefully preferved, and upon in- 
fpe&ion I found every thing in good order. Having 
learned from them, that all the effeCls would, in a 
few days time, be removed to the fcore-houfe, I 
bid adieu to them, and in a little time arrived at 
the trading-houfe, where I was received with great 
politenefs, and treated, during a refidence of feve- 
ral months, with the utmoft civility and friendfhip, 
by Mr. C. M f Latche, Mefirs. Spalding and KelfalBs 
agent. 
The river almofl from Charlotia, and for near 
twelve miles higher up, is divided into many chan- 
nels by a great number of iflands,, 
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