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shape like a large oven. These they make much 

 use of; especially for any pains in the joints, got 

 by cold or traveling. At night, as we lay in our 

 beds, there arose the most violent IsT. W. wind I 

 ever knew. The first puff blew down all the pa- 

 lifadoes that fortified the town ; and I thought it 

 would have blown us all into the river, together 

 with the houses. Our one-eyed king, who pre- 

 tends much to the art of conjuration, ran out in 

 the most violent hurry, and in the middle of the 

 town, fell to his necromantic practice ; though I 

 thought he would have been blown away or killed, 

 before the devil and he could have exchanged half 

 a dozen words : but in two minutes the wind was 

 ceased, and it became as great a calm as ever I 

 knew in my life. As I much admired at that sud- 

 den alteration, the old man told me that the devil 

 was very angry, and had done thus because they 

 had not put the Sinnagers to death. 



On Monday morning our whole company, with 

 the horses, set out from the Sapona Indian town, 

 after having seen some of the locust, which is got- 

 ten thereabouts, the same sort that bears honey. 

 Going over several creeks, very convenient for 

 water mills, about eight miles from the town we 

 passed over a very pretty river, called Rocky river, 

 a fit name, having a ridge of high mountains run- 

 ning from its banks to the eastward, and disgorg- 

 ing itself into Sapona river, so that there is a most 

 pleasant and convenient neck of land betwixt both 

 rivers, lying upon a point where many thousand 



