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desired us, by all means, to leave a letter for them 

 at the Achonechy town. The Indian that put us 

 in our path, had been a prisoner amongst the Sin- 

 nagers, but had outrun them, although they had 

 cut his toes and half his feet away, which is a prac- 

 tice common amongst them. They first raise the 

 skin, then cut away half the feet, and so wrap the 

 skin over the stumps and make a present cure of 

 the wounds. This commonly disables them from 

 making their escape, they being not so good trav- 

 elers as before, and the impression of their half 

 feet making it easy to trace them ; however, this 

 fellow was got clear of them, but had little heart to 

 go far from home, and carried always a case of pis- 

 tols in his girdle, besides a cutlass and a fuzee. 

 Leaving the rest of our company at the Indian 

 town, we traveled that day about twenty miles, in 

 very cold frosty weather ; and passed over two 

 pretty rivers, something bigger than Ileighwaree, 

 but not quite so stony. We took these two rivers 

 to make one of the northward branches of Cape 

 Fair river, but afterwards found our mistake. 



The next day we traveled over very good land, 

 but full of freestone and marble, which pinched 

 our feet severely. We took up our quarters in a 

 sort of savanna ground that had very few trees in 

 it. The land was good and had several quarries 

 of stone, but not loose as the others used to be. 



$~ext morning we got our breakfast of parched 

 corn, having nothing but that to subsist on for 

 above one hundred miles. All the pine trees were 



