NORTH AMERICA, 
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tance, every day's excurfion preferring new fcenes 
of wonder and delight. 
Early in the morning our chief invited me with 
him on a vilit to the town, to take a final leave of 
the White King. We were gracioufiy received* 
and treated with the utmoll civility and hofpita- 
lity : there was a noble entertainment and repaft 
provided againlt our arrival, confifting of bears ribs, 
venifon, varieties of fifh, roafted turkies (which 
they call the white man's dilh), hot corn cakes, and 
a very agreeable cooling fort of jelly, which they 
call conte : this is prepared from the root of the 
China briar (Smilax pfeudo-China ; Smilax afpera, 
frudtu nigro, radice nodofa, magna, laevi, farinacea ; 
Sloan, tom. i. p. 31. t. 143. fi 1. habit. Jamaica* 
Virginia, Carolina, and Florida) : they chop the 
roots in pieces, which are afterwards well pounded 
in a wooden mortar, then being mixed with clean 
water, in a tray or trough, they ftrain it through 
bafkets ; the fediment, which fettles to the bottom 
of the fecond veil'd, is afterwards dried in the open 
air, and is then a very fine reddifb flour or meal : a 
fmall quantity of this mixed with warm tvater and 
fweetened with honey, when cool, becomes a beau- 
tiful, delicious jelly, very nourifhing and wholefome* 
They alfo mix it with fine corn flour, which being 
fried in frefli bear's oil makes very good hot cakes 
or fritters. 
On our taking leave of the king and head men^ 
they entreated our chief to reprefent to the white 
people, their unfeigned defire to bury in oblivion 
the late breach of amity and intermiffion of com- 
merce, which they trailed would never be refk&ed 
m the people of Talahafochte $ apd* billy* that we 
would 
