We Took Up Our Quarters By A Fish-Pond-Side;
The Pits In The Woods That Stand Full Of Water, Naturally Breed Fish In Them,
In Great Quantities.
We cook'd our Supper, but having neither Bread, or Salt,
our fat Turkeys began to be loathsome to us, altho' we were never wanting
of a good Appetite, yet a Continuance of one Diet, made us weary.
{Wednesday.}
The next Morning, Santee Jack told us, we should reach
the Indian Settlement betimes that Day; about Noon, we pass'd by
several fair Savanna's, very rich and dry; seeing great Copses of many Acres
that bore nothing but Bushes, about the Bigness of Box-trees;
which (in the Season) afford great Quantities of small Black-berries,
very pleasant Fruit, and much like to our Blues, or Huckle-berries,
that grow on Heaths in England. Hard by the Savanna's we found the Town,
where we halted; there was not above one Man left with the Women,
the rest being gone a Hunting for a Feast. The Women were very busily
engag'd in Gaming: The Name or Grounds of it, I could not learn,
tho' I look'd on above two Hours. Their Arithmetick was kept
with a Heap of Indian Grain. When their Play was ended,
the King, or Cassetta's Wife, invited us into her Cabin. The Indian Kings
always entertaining Travellers, either English, or Indian;
taking it as a great Affront, if they pass by their Cabins,
and take up their Quarters at any other Indian's House.
The Queen set Victuals before us, which good Compliment they use generally
as soon as you come under their Roof.
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