He Had Brought
Seven Horses Along With Him, Loaded With English Goods For The Indians;
And Having Sold Most Of His Cargo, Told Us, If We Would Stay Two Nights,
He Would Go Along With Us.
Company being very acceptable,
we accepted the Proposal.
{Friday.}
The next day, we were preparing for our Voyage, and baked some Bread
to take along with us. Our Landlord was King of the Kadapau Indians,
and always kept two or three trading Girls in his Cabin.
Offering one of these to some of our Company, who refus'd his Kindness,
his Majesty flew into a violent Passion, to be thus slighted,
telling the Englishmen, they were good for nothing. Our old Gamester,
particularly, hung his Ears at the Proposal, having too lately been a Loser
by that sort of Merchandize. It was observable, that we did not see
one Partridge from the Waterrees to this place, tho' my Spaniel-Bitch,
which I had with me in this Voyage, had put up a great many before.
{Saturday.}
On Saturday Morning, we all set out for Sapona, killing, in these Creeks,
several Ducks of a strange Kind, having a red Circle about their Eyes,
like some Pigeons that I have seen, a Top-knot reaching
from the Crown of their Heads, almost to the middle of their Backs,
and abundance of Feathers of pretty Shades and Colours.
They prov'd excellent Meat. Likewise, here is good store of Woodcocks,
not so big as those in England, the Feathers of the Breast
being of a Carnation-Colour, exceeding ours for Delicacy of Food.
The Marble here is of different Colours, some or other of the Rocks
representing most Mixtures, but chiefly the white having black and blue Veins
in it, and some that are red.
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