TRAVELS X&T 
J92 
do Pare, and is worked and tended by the whofo 
community ; yet every family has its particular 
part, according to its own appointment, marked off 
when planted ; and this portion receives the com- 
mon labour and affiflance until ripe, when each fa~ 
mily gathers and depofits in its granary its own pro- 
per fliare, Petting apart a fmall gift or contribution 
for the public granary, which Hands in the centre of 
the plantation* 
The youth, under the fupervifal of fome of their 
ancient people, are daily Hationed in the fields, 
and are continually whooping and hallooing, to 
chafe away crows, jackdaws, black-birds, and fuch 
predatory animals ; and the lads are armed with 
bows and arrows, and being trained lip to it from 
their early youth, are Pure at a mark, and in the 
courPe of the day load themPelves with fquirrels, 
birds, &c* The men in turn patrole the corn 
hclds at night, to protect their proviPions Prom the 
depredations of night rovers, as bears, raccoons^ 
and deer ; the two former being immoderately fond 
of young corn, when the grain is filled with a rich 
milk, as Pweet and nourifhing as cream 9 and the 
deer are as fond of the Potatoe vines. 
After the feafi; was over, we returned to our en- 
campment on the great favanna, towards the even- 
ing. Our companions whom we left at the campy 
were impatient for our return, having been out 
horfe hunting in the plains and groves during our 
abfence. They foon left us, on a vifit to the town,- 
having there fome female friends, with whom they 
were anxious to renew their acquaintance. The 
Siminole girls are by no means deflitute of charms 
to pieafe the rougher fex : the white traders are 
fully fenfibie how greatly it is to their advantage 
