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After the ufual compliments and inquiries relative 
to our adventures, &c. the chief trader informed 
the Cowkeeper, in the prefence of his council or 
attendants, the purport of our bulinefs, with which 
he exprelfed his fatisfatftion. He was then informed 
what the nature of my errand was, and he received 
me with complailance, giving me unlimited per- 
million to travel over the country for the purpofe 
of collecting flowers* medicinal plants. Sec. faluting 
me by the name of Puc Puggy, or the Flower 
hunter, recommending me to the friendfhip and 
protection of his people. 
The next day being agreed on to hold a council 
and tranfact the bufinefs of our em bally, we ac- 
quainted the chief with our intention of making our 
encampment on the borders of the great Alachua 
savanna, and to return at the time appointed to 
town, to attend the council according to agree- 
ment. 
Soon after we had fixed on the time and manner 
of proceeding on the further fettlement of the treaty, 
a confiderable number of Indians alfembled around 
their chief, when the converfation turned to common 
and familiar topics. 
The chief is a tall well made man, very affable 
and cheerful, about frxty years of age, his eyes lively 
and full of fire, his countenance manly and placid, 
yet ferocious, or what we call favage, his nofe aqui- 
line, his drefs extremely fimple, but his head trim- 
med and ornamented in the true Creek mode. He 
has been a great warrior, having then attending, 
him as flaves, many Yamafee captives, taken by 
himfelf when young. They were dreffed better 
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