Within Half A Mile Of The House, We Pass'd Over A Prodigious
Wide And Deep Swamp, Being Forc'd To Strip
Stark-naked,
and much a-do to save our selves from drowning in this Fatiegue.
We, with much a-do,
Got thro', going that Day about five Miles farther,
and came to three more Indian Cabins, call'd in the Indian Tongue,
Hickerau, by the English Traders, the black House, being pleasantly
seated on a high Bank, by a Branch of Santee-River. One of our Company,
that had traded amongst these Indians, told us, That one of the Cabins
was his Father's-in-Law; he call'd him so, by Reason the old Man had given him
a young Indian Girl, that was his Daughter, to lie with him, make Bread,
and to be necessary in what she was capable to assist him in,
during his Abode amongst them.
When we came thither first, there was no Body at Home, so the Son made bold
to search his Father's Granary for Corn, and other Provisions.
He brought us some Indian Maiz and Peas, which are of a reddish Colour,
and eat well, yet colour the Liquor they are boil'd in,
as if it were a Lixivium of red Tartar. After we had been
about an Hour in the House, where was Millions of Fleas,
the Indian Cabins being often fuller of such Vermin, than any Dog-Kennel,
the old Man came in to us, and seem'd very glad to see his Son-in-Law.
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