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each other; and before night I (truck up a bar- 
gain with them for a handfoine ferong young 
horfe, which colt me about ten pounds (lerling* 
I was now conltrained to leave my old (lave be- 
hind, to feed in rich cane paftures, where he was 
to remain and recruit until the return of his new 
mailer from Mobile ; from whom I extorted a 
promife to ufe him gently, and if polhble, not to 
make a pack-horfe of him. 
Next morning we decamped, proceeding again 
on my travels, now alert and cheerful. C rolled a 
brilk rivulet rippling over a gravelly bed, and 
winding through aromatic groves of the Illicium 
Floridanum, then gently defeended to the high 
forefts, leaving Deadman’s creek, for at this 
creek a white man was found dead, fuppofed to 
have been murdered, from which circumftance 
it has its name. 
A few days before we arrived at the Nation, 
we met a company of emigrants from Georgia; 
a man, his wife, a young woman, feveral young 
children, and three flout young men, with about 
a dozen horfes loaded with their property. They 
informed us their defign was to fettle on the 
Alabama, a few miles above the confluence of 
(he Tombigbe. 
Being now near the Nation, the chief trader 
with another of our company fat off a-head for 
his town, to give notice to the Nation, as he faid, 
of his approach with the merchandize, each of 
them taking the bell horfe they could pick out 
of the gang, leaving the goods to the conduct 
and care of the young Muftee and myfelf. Early 
in the evening we came to the banks of a large 
deep creek, a considerable branch of the Ala- 
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