During Our Stay,
There Happen'd To Be A Young Woman Troubled With Fits.
The Doctor Who Was Sent For To
Assist her, laid her on her Belly,
and made a small Incision with Rattle-Snake-Teeth; then laying his Mouth
To the Place, he suck'd out near a Quart of black conglutinated Blood,
and Serum. Our Landlord gave us the Tail of a Bever,
which was a choice Food. {Friday.} There happen'd also to be
a Burial of one of their Dead, which Ceremony is much the same with
that of the Santees, who make a great Feast at the Interment of their Corps.
The small Runs of Water hereabout, afford great Plenty of Craw-Fish,
full as large as those in England, and nothing inferior in Goodness.
{Saturday.}
Saturday Morning, our Patron, with Enoe Will, and his Servant,
set out with us, for the English. In the Afternoon, we ferried
over a River, (in a Canoe) called by the Indians, Chattookau,
which is the N.W. Branch of Neus-River. We lay in the Swamp,
where some Indians invited us to go to their Quarters,
which some of our Company accepted, but got nothing extraordinary,
except a dozen Miles March out of their Way: The Country here
is very thick of Indian Towns and Plantations.
{Sunday.}
We were forced to march, this day, for Want of Provisions. About 10 a Clock,
we met an Indian that had got a parcel of Shad-Fish ready barbaku'd.
We bought 24 of them, for a dress'd Doe-Skin, and so went on,
through many Swamps, finding, this day, the long ragged Moss on the Trees,
which we had not seen for above 600 Miles. In the Afternoon,
we came upon the Banks of Pampticough, about 20 Miles above
the English Plantations by Water, though not so far by Land.
The Indian found a Canoe, which he had hidden, in which
we all got over, and went about six Miles farther. We lay, that Night,
under two or three Pieces of Bark, at the Foot of a large Oak.
There fell abundance of Snow and Rain in the Night, with much
Thunder and Lightning.
{Monday.}
Next Day, it clear'd up, and it being about 12 Miles to the English,
about half-way we passed over a deep Creek, and came safe
to Mr. Richard Smith's, of Pampticough-River, in North-Carolina;
where being well receiv'd by the Inhabitants, and pleas'd with
the Goodness of the Country, we all resolv'd to continue.
FINIS.
A
DESCRIPTION
of
North-CAROLINA.
{Carolina how bounded.}
The Province of Carolina is separated from Virginia by a due West-Line,
which begins at Currituck-Inlet, in 36 Degrees, 30 Minutes,
of Northern-Latitude, and extends indefinitely to the Westward,
and thence to the Southward, as far as 29 Degrees; which is a vast Tract
of Sea-Coast. But having already treated, as far as is necessary,
concerning South-Carolina, I shall confine myself, in the ensuing Sheets,
to give my Reader a Description of that Part of the Country only,
which lies betwixt Currituck and Cape-Fair, and is almost 34 Deg.
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