'Tis Admirable To See
What Time And Industry Will (With God's Blessing) Effect.
Carolina Affording Many Strange Revolutions In The Age Of A Man,
Daily Instances Presenting Themselves To Our View, Of So Many,
From Despicable Beginnings, Which In A Short Time Arrive
To Very Splended Conditions.
Here Propriety hath a large Scope,
there being no strict Laws to bind our Privileges.
A Quest after Game,
being as freely and peremptorily enjoy'd by the meanest Planter,
as he that is the highest in Dignity, or wealthiest in the Province.
Deer, and other Game that are naturally wild, being not immur'd,
or preserv'd within Boundaries, to satisfy the Appetite of the Rich alone.
A poor Labourer, that is Master of his Gun, &c. hath as good a Claim
to have continu'd Coarses of Delicacies crouded upon his Table,
as he that is Master of a greater Purse.
We lay all that Night at Mons. Eugee's, and the next Morning
set out farther, to go the Remainder of our Voyage by Land:
At ten a Clock we pass'd over a narrow, deep Swamp, having left
the three Indian Men and one Woman, that had pilotted the Canoe
from Ashly-River, having hir'd a Sewee-Indian, a tall, lusty Fellow,
who carry'd a Pack of our Cloaths, of great Weight;
notwithstanding his Burden, we had much a-do to keep pace with him.
At Noon we came up with several French Plantations, meeting with
several Creeks by the Way, the French were very officious
in assisting with their small Dories to pass over these Waters,
(whom we met coming from their Church) being all of them
very clean and decent in their Apparel; their Houses and Plantations
suitable in Neatness and Contrivance.
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