22 LAWSON'S HISTORY 



were in great danger of our lives, but (by God' 3 

 blessing) got off safe to the shore, where we lay 

 all night. In the morning we set forward on our 

 intended voyage. About two o'clock we got to 

 Bulls island, which is about thirty miles long, and 

 hath a great number of both cattle and hogs upon 

 it ; the cattle being very wild and the hogs very 

 lean. These two last islands belong to one Col. 

 Gary, an inhabitant of South Carolina. 



Although it were winter, yet we found such 

 swarms of musketoes, and other troublesome in- 

 sects, that we got but litttle rest that night. 



The next day we intended for a small island on 

 the other side of Sewee bay, which, joining to 

 these islands, shipping might come to victual or 

 careen : but there being sucli^a burden of those 

 flies that few or none, care to settle there ; so the 

 stock thereon are run wild. We were gotten about 

 half way to Racoon island, when there sprung up 

 a tart gale at !N". "W., which put us in some danger 

 of being cast away, the bay being rough, and there 

 running great seas between the two islands, which 

 are better than four leagues asunder, a strong 

 current of a tide setting in and out, which made us 

 turn tail to it, and got our canoe right before the 

 wind, and came safe into a creek that is joining to 

 the north end of Bulls island. We sent our In- 

 dians to hunt, who brought us two deers, which 

 were very poor, and their maws full of large grubs. 

 On the morrow we went and visited the eastern- 

 most side of this island, it joining to the ocean, 



