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large, but, as the Indians told us, well stored with 

 fish. We being now among the powerful nation 

 of Esaws, our landlord entertained us very cour- 

 teously* showing uSj that night, a pair of leather 

 gloves which he had made ; and comparing them 

 with ours, they proved to be very ingeniously done, 

 considering it was the first trial. 



In the morning, he desired to see the lame man's 

 affected part, to the end he might do something 

 which lie believed would give him ease, after he 

 had viewed it accordingly, he pulled out an instru- 

 ment, somewhat like a comb, which was made of 

 a split reed, with fifteen teeth of rattlesnakes, set 

 at much the same distance as in a large horn. comb. 

 "With these he scratched the place where the lame- 

 ness chiefly lay till the blood came,, bathing it 

 both before and after incision, with warm water 

 spurted out of his mouth, this done, he ran in- 

 to his plantation and got some sassafras root, 

 which grows here in great plenty, dried it in the em- 

 bers, scraped off the outward rind, and having 

 beat it betwixt two stones, applied it to the part 

 afflicted, binding it up well. Thus in a day or 

 two, the patient became sound. This day we 

 passed through a great many towns and settle- 

 ments that belong to the Sugeree Indians, no bar- 

 ren land being found amongst them, but great 

 plenty of free stone and good timber. About three 

 in the afternoon we reached the Kadapau king's 

 house, where we met with one John Stewart, a 

 Scot, then an inhabitant of James river, in Vir- 



