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necessity require, it would make a delightful set- 

 tlement. 



We went eight miles farther and came to the 

 "Wateree Chickanee Indians. The land holds 

 good, there being not a spot of bad land to be 

 seen in several days' going. 



The people of this nation are likely tall persons, 

 and great pilferers, slealing from us any thing 

 they could lay their hands on, though very res- 

 pectful in giving us what victuals we wanted. 

 We lay in their cabins all night, being dark smo- 

 ky holes as ever I saw any Indians dwell in. 

 This nation is much more populous than the Con- 

 gerees and their neighbors, yet understand not 

 one another's speech. They are very poor in 

 English effects, several of them having no guns, 

 making use of bows and arrows, being a lazy, idle 

 people, a quality incident to most Indians, but 

 none to that degree as these, as I ever met with- 

 al. 



Their country is wholy free from swamps and 

 quagmires, being high dry land, and consequently 

 healthful, producing large corn stalks, and fair 

 grain. 



'Next morning we took off our beards with a 

 razor, the Indians looked on with a great deal of 

 admiration. Tliey told us they had never seen 

 the like before, and that our knives cut far better 

 than those that came amongst the Indians. They 

 w^ould fain have borrowed our razors as they had 

 our knives, scissors and tobacco tongs the day be- 



