Lawson’s Travels in the Piedmont VII
In nliieli we follow the colony's first
“historian" across flic middle of North
Carolina.
Enoc Will is their chief Man. and
rules as far as the Banks of Reatkin.
It was a sad, stony Way to Adshushecr.
We went over a small River by Acho-
nechy, and in this fourteen Miles,
through several other Streams which
empty themselves into the Branches of
Cape Fair.
The stony Way made me quite lame,
so that I was an Hour or two behind
the rest; but honest Will would not
leave me, but bid me welcome when we
came to his House, feasting us with hot
Bread and Bcar’s-Oil. which is whole¬
some Food for Travelers. There runs
a pretty Rivulet by this Town. Near
the Plantation, I saw a prodigious over¬
grown Pine-Tree, having not seen any
of that Sort of Timber for above one
hundred and twenty-five Miles.
Our Guide and Landlord, Fnoe
Will, was one of the best and most
agreeable Temper that ever I met with
an Indian, being always ready to serve
the English, not out of Gain, but real
Affection; which makes him apprehen¬
sive of being poisoned by some wicked
Indians, and was therefore very earnest
with me. to promise him to avenge his
Death, if it should so happen. He
brought some of his chief Men into his
Cabin, and two of them having a
Drum, and a Rattle, sung by us as we
lay in Bed, and struck up their Music
to serenade and welcome us to their
Town. And though at last, we fell
asleep, yet they continued their Con¬
cert till Morning.
These Indians arc fortified in as the
former, and arc much addicted to a
Tlii» MT>« Cram '•I»»»on4 III. (an of Nor III
Carolina.” by John la» .on. -Ill br concluded In
our ne\l Umi*.
Sport they call Chcnco, which is car¬
ried on with a Staff and a Bowl made
of Stone, which they trundle upon a
smooth Place like a Bowling-Green,
made for that Purpose, as I have men¬
tioned before.
Next Morning we set out with our
Guide and several other Indians who
intended to go to the English and buy
Rum. We designed for a Nation about
forty Miles from Adshushecr, called
the Lower-Quarter: The first Night we
lay in a rich Pocoson, or low ground,
that was hard by a Creek, and good
dry Land.
The next day wc went over several
Tracts of rich Land, but mixed with
Pines and other indifferent Soil. In our
way there stood a great Stone about the
Si/c of a large Oven, and hollow; this
the Indians took great Notice of. put¬
ting some Tobacco into the Concavity,
and spitting after it. I asked them the
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