NORTH AMERICA* 
arms., yet magnanimous and merciful to a van- 
quifhed enemy when he fubmks and feeks their 
friendfhip and protection : always uniting the van- 
quillied tribes in confederacy with them ; when 
they immediately enjoy, unexceptionably, every 
right of free citizens, and are from that moment 
united in one common band of brotherhood. 
They were never known to exterminate a tribe, 
except the Yamafees, who v/ould never fubmic 
on any terms, but fought it out to the laft, only 
about forty or fifty of them efcaping at the laft 
decifive battle, who threw themfelves under the 
protection of the Spaniards at St. Augtiftine. 
According to their own account, which I be- 
lieve to be true, after their arrival in this coun- 
try, they joined in alliance and perpetual amity 
with the Britifn colonifts in South Carolina and 
Georgia, which they never openly violated j but 
on the contrary, purfued every ftep to ftrengthen 
the alliance; and their aged chiefs to this day, 
fpeak of it with tears of joy, and exult in that 
memorable tranfa&ion, as one of the mcft glo- 
rious events in the annals of their nation. 
As an inltance of their ideas of political im- 
partial juftice, and homage to the Supreme Being, 
as the high arbiter of human tranfaCtions, who 
alone claims the right of taking away the life of 
man, I beg leave to offer to the reader’s confi- 
deration, the following event, as I had it from the 
mouth of a Spaniard, a refpeCtable inhabitant of 
Eaft Florida. 
The fon of the Spanifli governor of St Au- 
guftine, together with two young gentlemen, his 
friends and affociates, conceived a defign of a- 
mufing themfelves in a party of fport, at hunt- 
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