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gabin left us to go up this branch to his own 
country, that of th zCayagas, this night it rained 
a little, and the morning was very foggy. 
xyth. Day, we croffed the neck to the eaft 
branch of Sujqu$hanah, up which we travelled 
along a rich bottom of high grals and woods of 
a fine creek, then over oak and pitch pine land 
to a fwampy run and fine meadow ground, 
then eaft through white and pitch pine, oak, 
hickery and hazel bottom, and fo N. E. to 
the river, where grew, a white pine dole to the 
water, with four green cones on. ftill we kept 
N. E. at io bore S. Here the river turned 
thus, occafloncd by fome high barren moun- 
tains on the other fide, whole lides came dole 
to it, and turned the ftrearn in this crooked 
manner. We travelled through a fine vale of 
pine land. Here was a place where the Indi- 
ans had been a pawawing. They cut a parcel 
of poles, which they flick in the ground in 
a circle, about the bignels of hop poles, the cicrie 
about five foot diameter, and then bring them 
together at the top, and tie them in form of 
an * oven, where the conjurer placeth himfelf- 
then his adiftants cover the cage over clofo 
with blankets and to make it ftill more 
fuffbeating, hot ftones are rolled in • after 
all this the prieft mull cry aloud, and agitate 
his 
* Vide Capt. Beverley's hii! of Virginia, $vo. a curious and 
ufeiul work, and the Daren Labontans entertaining voyages 
in theft parts, 
