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coson, or low ground that was hard by a creek, 

 and good dry land. 



The next day we went over several tracts of rich 

 land, but mixed with pines and other indifferent 

 soil. In our way there stood a great stone about 

 the size of a large oven, and hollow ; this the Indians 

 took great notice of, putting some tobacco into 

 the concavity, and spitting after it. I asked them 

 the reason of their so doing, but they made me no 

 answer. In the evening we passed over a pleas- 

 ant rivulet, with a fine gravelly bottom, having 

 come over such another that morning. On the 

 other side of this river we found the Indian town, 

 which was a parcel of nasty, smoky holes, much 

 like the Waterrees ; their town having a great 

 swamp running directly through the middle there- 

 of. The land here begins to abate of its height, 

 and has some few swamps. Most of these Indians 

 have but one eye ; but what mischance or quarrel 

 has bereaved them of the other I could not learn. 

 They were not so free to us as most of the other 

 Indians had been ; victuals being somewhat scarce 

 among them. However, we got enough to satis- 

 fy our appetites. I saw, among these men, very 

 long arrows, headed with pieces of glass, which 

 they had broken from bottles. They had shaped 

 them neatly, like the head of a dart, but which 

 way they did it I can't tell. We had not been at 

 this town above an hour when two of our compa- 

 ny, that had bought a mare of John Stewart, came 

 up to us, having received a letter by one of Will's 



