226 " TRAILS IK 
The trader of the town of Talahafochte informed 
me, that he had, when trading in that town, large 
fupplies of goods from thefe Spanifh trading vefiels, 
fuitable for that trade, and fome very eflential ar- 
ticles, on more advantageous terms than he could 
purchafe at Indian ftores either in Georgia or St, 
Aueuftine. 
Towards the evening after the fultry heats were 
paft, a young man of our company, having pre~ 
vioufly procured the loan of a canoe from an Indian, 
propofed to me a fifhing excurfion for trout with 
the bob. We fet off down the river, and before 
we had palled two miles caught enough for our 
houlhold : he was an excellent hand at this kind of 
diverfion : fome of the fijfh were fo large and ftrong 
in their element, as to fhake his arms ftoutly, and 
drag us with the canoe over the floods before we 
got them in. It is in the eddy coves, under the 
points and turnings of the river, where the fur- 
face of the waters for fome acres is covered with 
the leaves of the Nymphea, Piftia, and other am- 
phibious herbs and grais, where the haunts and re- 
treats of this famous fifh are, as well as others of 
various tribes. 
Observing a fifliing canoe of Indians turning a 
point below and coming towards us, who hailed 
us, we waited their coming up ; they were cheer- 
ful merry fellows, and infilled on our accepting of 
part of their filh ; they having a greater quantity 
and variety, efpecially of the bream, my favourite 
fifh, we exchanged fome of our trout with them. 
Our chief being engaged with the chiefs of the. 
town in commercial concerns, and others of our 
company out in the forefts with the Indians^ hunt- 
