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time ! plenty of delicious and healthful food, our 
llomachs keen, with contented minds; under no 
eontroul, but what reafon and ordinate paflions dic- 
tated, far removed from the feats of ft rife. 
Our fituation was like that of the primitive flate 
of man, peaceable, contented and fociable. The 
fmiple and neceflary calls of nature being fatisfied, 
we were altogether as brethren of one family, fira ti- 
gers to envy, malice, and rapine. 
The night being over we arofe, and purfued our 
courfe up the river ; and in the evening reached the 
trading-houfe, Spalding’s upper (lore, where I took 
up my quarters for feveral weeks. 
On our arrival at the upper flore, we found it 
occupied by a white trader, who had for a compa- 
nion a very handfome Siminole young woman. Her 
father, who was a prince, by the name of the White 
Captain, was an old chief of the Siminoles, and with 
part of his family, to the number of ten or twelve, 
was encamped in an orange grove near the flares, 
having lately come in from a hunt. 
This white trader, foon after our arrival, deli- 
vered up the goods and flore-houfes to my compa- 
nion, and joined his father-in-law’s camp, and foon 
after went away into the forefls on hunting and tra- 
ding amongfl the flying camps of Siminoles. 
He is at this time unhappy in his connexions with 
his beautiful favage. It is but a few years fince he 
came here, I think from North Carolina, a flout 
genteel well-bred man, aflive, and of a heroic and 
amiable difpofltion ; and by his induflry, honeily, 
and engaging manners, had gained the affeftions of 
the Indians, and foon made a little fortune by traffic 
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