3G8 POPULATION. 



tempt they made to open direct 

 communication with England, 

 by a fleet of canoes, in which 

 they put to sea in the direction 

 whence they had observed the 

 English vessels arrive. 



47 48 



Saraw or Clieraw. Chesterfield and Marlboro 



counties, absorbed by the Ca- 

 tawbas. 



49 



Kaclapaw. Lynch's creek, joined the Ca- 



tawbas. 



The Pee Dees are not mentioned, as it is thought the name is of Euro- 

 pean origin, probably from P. D., the initials of Patrick Daly, a white 

 man, carved upon a tree by an early settler. The nineteen tribes, claimed 

 under the Creek nation, occupying at least one-half of the State, appears 

 to have been very insignificant in numl^ers, according to the earliest au- 

 thentic accounts of them. Governor Glenn sums them all up in one sen- 

 tence. " There are among our settlements several small tribes of Indians, 

 consisting only of some few families each." Lawson says of them : " Al- 

 though their tribes or nations border upon one another, yet you may oft- 

 en discern as great an alteration in their features and disposition (he was 

 much impressed by the comeliness of the Congaree women) as you can in 

 their speech, which generally proves quite different from each other, 

 though their nations be not above ten or twenty miles in distance." 



Admitting, however, that these scattered and fragmentary tribes 

 equaled in numbers the Cherokees and the Catawbas, there is no data 

 for supposing that the total Indian population within the present bound- 

 aries of South Carolina could have much exceeded 3000 at the date of 

 the early white settlements. 



Accepting Lawson's enumeration (above given) of the Indians of North 

 Carolina, and assuming an equal density for them in the two States, there 

 would have been 2870 Indians in South Carolina. 



Adopting the maximum estimate of Bancroft and Draper, it would give 

 a population of one Indian to five square miles, or 6116 for South Caro- 

 lina. In 1750 there were in South Carolina 64,000 whites and negroes, 

 so tliat even at this early date immigrants from across the Atlantic ex- 

 ceeded the aborigines by more than ten to one. 



By the census of 1881, the number of Indians, chiefly Catawbas, in 

 South Carolina, is 131. This statement would seem to confirm the very 

 general notion as to the rapid process of decay and extinction among the 



