Notwithstanding The English Have Us'd
All Their Endeavours, Yet They Could Never Bring Them To Leave
This Barbarity To The Spaniards; Who, As They Alledge,
Use To Murder Them And Their Relations, And Make Slaves Of Them
To Build Their Forts And Towns.
This Place is more plentiful in Money, than most, or indeed
any of the Plantations on the Continent; besides,
They build
a considerable Number of Vessels of Cedar, and other Wood,
with which they trade to Cuirassau, and the West Indies;
from one they bring Money, and from the other the Produce of their Islands,
which yields a necessary Supply of both to the Colony. Their Stocks of Cattle
are incredible, being from one to two thousand Head in one Man's Possession:
These feed in the Savannas, and other Grounds, and need no Fodder
in the Winter. Their Mutton and Veal is good, and their Pork is not inferior
to any in America. As for Pitch and Tar, none of the Plantations
are comparable for affording the vast Quantities of Naval Stores,
as this Place does. There have been heretofore some Discoveries of rich Mines
in the mountanous Part of this Country; but being remote from
the present Settlement, and the Inhabitants not well vers'd
in ordering Minerals, they have been laid aside 'till a more
fit Opportunity happens. There are several noble Rivers,
and spacious Tracts of rich Land in their Lordships Dominions,
lying to the Southward, which are yet uninhabited, besides Port Royal,
a rare Harbour and Inlet, having many Inhabitants thereon,
which their Lordships have now made a Port for Trade. This will be
a most advantageous Settlement, lying so commodiously for Ships
coming from the Gulph, and the Richness of the Land, which is reported
to be there. These more Southerly Parts will afford Oranges, Limons,
Limes, and many other Fruits, which the Northerly Plantations yield not.
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders. The Gentlemen
seated in the Country, are very courteous, live very nobly in their Houses,
and give very genteel Entertainment to all Strangers and others, that come
to visit them. And since the Produce of South and North Carolina
is the same, unless Silk, which this Place produces great Quantities of,
and very good, North Carolina having never made any Tryal thereof as yet,
therefore I shall refer the natural Produce of this Country,
to that Part which treats of North Carolina, whose Productions
are much the same. The Christian Inhabitants of both Colonies pretty equal,
but the Slaves of South Carolina are far more in Number than those
in the North. I shall now proceed to relate my Journey thro' the Country,
from this Settlement to the other, and then treat of the natural History
of Carolina, with other remarkable Circumstances which I have met with,
during my eight Years Abode in that Country.
A
JOURNAL
of
A thousand Miles Travel among the Indians, from South to North Carolina.
{Saturday.}
On December the 28th, 1700, I began my Voyage (for North Carolina)
from Charles-Town, being six English-men in Company,
with three Indian-men, and one Woman, Wife to our Indian-Guide,
having five Miles from the Town to the Breach we went down in a large Canoe,
that we had provided for our Voyage thither, having the Tide of Ebb
along with us; which was so far spent by that Time we got down,
that we had not Water enough for our Craft to go over, although we drew
but two Foot, or thereabouts.
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