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my and a fpy amongil them, and fecretly refolded 
to difpatch him. The young philofopher got 
notice of their fufpicions and hoftile intentions* 
in time to make his efcape ; though clofely pur- 
filed, he kept a head of his fanguinary purfuers* 
arrived at Mobile, and threw himfelf under the 
protection of the Rnglifh, entered the fervice of 
the trader of Mucclaffe, who was then fetting off 
for the Nation, and notwithstanding the fpeed with 
which we travelled, narrowly efcaped the ardour 
and vigilance of his purfuing enemies, who fur- 
prifed a company of emigrants, in the defarts of 
Schambe, the very night after we met them, ex- 
pecting to intercept him thereabout. 
The yoahg traveller having learned all their 
molt celebrated new fongs and poetry, at a great 
dance and festival in the Mucclaffe, a day or two 
after our arrival, the youth preffed him to give out 
home of his new fongs ; he complied with their 
entreaties, and the fongs and dance went round 
with harmony and eclat. There was a young Chac- 
taw Have girl in the circle, who foon after dis- 
covered very affeCHng fenfations of affliction and 
diltrefs of mind, and before the conclufion of the 
dance, many of her companions complimented her 
with fympathetic fighs and tears, from their own 
fparkling eyes. As foon as I had an opportu- 
nity, I inquired of the young Orpheus, the caufe 
of that fong being fo diftrefiing to the young 
Have. He replied, that when fhe was lately taken 
captive, her father and brothers were flam in the 
contcft, and fhe underftanding the fenfe of the 
fong, called to remembrance the tragical fate of 
her family, and could not forbear weeping at the 
recital. 
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