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fields, clofe to the river bank, oppofitc the town 
of Savannuca. Late in the evening a young 
white man, in great hade and feeming confu- 
fion, joined our camp, who immediately related, 
that being on his journey from Penfacola, it 
happened that the very night after we had palled 
the company of emigrants, he met them and 
joined their camp, in the evening ; when, juft at 
dark, the Chattaws furrounded them, plundered 
their camp, and carried all the people off cap- 
tive, except himfelf, he having the good fortune to 
efcape with his horfe, though clofely purfued. 
Next morning very early, though very cold, 
and the fnrface of the earth as hoary as if cover- 
ed with a fall of fnow, the trader (landing on the 
oppofite fhore entirely naked, except a breech- 
clout, and encircled by a company of red men in 
the like habit, hailed us, and prefcntly, with 
canoes, brought us all over with the merchan- 
dize, and conduced us fafe to the town of 
Mucclafte, a mile or two diftant. 
The next day was a day of reft and audience : 
the following was devoted to feafting, and the 
evening concluded in celebrating the nuptials of 
the voung Muftee with a Creek girl of Muc- 
claffe, daughter of the chief and fifter to our 
trader’s wife. The trader’s houfe and ftores 
formed a complete fquare, after the mode of the 
habitations of the Mufcogulges, that ‘is, four 
oblong buildings of equal dimenfions, two op- 
pofite to each other, encompaffing an area of 
about a quarter of an acres on one fide of this 
a fence enclofed a yard of near an acre of grounds 
at one of the farther corners of which a booth or 
pavilion was formed of green boughs, having 
two Laurel trees planted In front (Magnolia 
grand!- 
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