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many acres that bore nothing but bushes, about 

 the bigness of box trees, which (in the season) af- 

 ford great quantities of small, black berries, very 

 pleasant fruit, and much like to our blues, or 

 huckleberries, that grow on heaths in England. 

 Hard by the Savannas we found the town, where 

 we halted. There was not above one man left 

 with the women, the rest being gone a hunting 

 for the feast. The women were very busily en- 

 gaged in gaming. The name or grounds of it I 

 could not learn, though I looked on above two 

 hours. Their arithmetic was kept with a heap of 

 Indian grain. When their play was ended, the 

 king, or Caffetta's wife, invited ns into her cabin. 

 The Indian kings always entertaining travelers, 

 either English or Indian ; taking it as a great af- 

 front, if they pass by their cabins and take up; 

 their quarters at any other Indian's house. The 

 queen set victuals before us, which good compli- 

 ment they use generally as soon as you come un- 

 der their roof. 



The town consists not of above a dozen houses, 

 they having other straggling plantations up and 

 down the country, and are seated upon a small 

 branch of Santee river. Their place hath curious 

 dry marshes and Savannas adjoining to it, and 

 would prove an exceeding thriving range for cat- 

 tle, and hogs, provided the English were seated 

 thereon. Besides, the land is good for plantations. 



These Indians are a small people, having lost 

 much of their former numbers, by intestine broils, 



