About Two A Clock, We Reach'd One Of Their Towns,
In Which There Was No Body Left, But An Old Woman Or Two; The Rest Being Gone
To Their Hunting-Quarters.
We could find no Provision at that Place.
We had a Tuskeruro that came in company with us, from the lower Quarter,
who took us to his Cabin, and gave us what it afforded, which was Corn-meat.
{Thursday.}
This Day, we pass'd through several Swamps, and going not above a dozen Miles,
came to a Cabin, the Master whereof us'd to trade amongst the English.
He told us, If we would stay Two Nights, he would conduct us safe to them,
himself designing, at that time, to go and fetch some Rum;
so we resolved to tarry for his Company. 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.
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