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with cloaks (huapiles) and many other things, including copper 

 and silver, to exchange for fish and salt. They stated also that 

 pearls were found near the mountains in a place* called Xoada, 

 described as very populous. The explorers met a Christian In- 

 dian in this region named Alonso, who acted as interpreter; 

 his father-in-law, whose name was Panto, was head chief of the 

 town of Sati (sometimes spelled Hati). One of these Indians had 

 been as far on the trail to Xoada as a town called Guatari. On 

 the direct road thither they said the following places were en- 

 countered: Guatari, Coguan-Guandu, Guacoguayn-Hati, Guaca- 

 Hati-Animache, Lasi, Guasar, Pasque, Cotique. From the mouth 

 of the Santee to Xoada was thirty days, "as Indians travel." 



Ecija entered the Jordan on his second expedition July 8, 

 1609, and found some small houses and fields sowed with corn. 

 He heard of a Frenchman living in the town of Sati and sent the 

 Indians to fetch him. The Frenchman then told Ecija that he 

 had heard from one of the natives that there was a town called 

 Daxe four days' travel beyond Sati, and one and a half days' 

 travel beyond that another, called Guandape, on an island near 

 which the English had established themselves. One of the Indi- 

 ans from whom the Frenchman had derived this information 

 was from a town called Guamuyhurto, the other two from a town 

 called Quixis, a.nd one had acted as interpreter for the English. 

 It would seem that the settlement referred to must have been the 

 Roanoke colony and not that at Jamestown, then only two 

 years old. Four leagues up the Jordan Ecija met three chiefs, 

 Sati, Gaandul, and Guatari. Another town in the interior was 

 known as Ypaguano, and still another, five days' journey from 

 Alonso's village, was called Guano. A river ten leagues from 

 Cape San Roman [Cape Fear] was called by the natives the river 

 Barachoare. Somewhere east of the Jordan and Santee was a 

 province known as Amy. 



With the exception of the interesting note regarding trade 

 there is little direct ethnological information in all this. It does, 

 however, yield some important facts regarding the tribes of the 

 section. In the first place there can be little doubt that the 

 Sati of Ecija are identical with the Santee of the English. In 



