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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