92 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Here is plenty of chesnuts which are rarely 

 found in Carolina, and never near the sea or salt 

 water, though they are frequently in such places 

 in Virginia. At the other house where our fel- 

 low travelers lay, they had provided a dish in great 

 fashion amongst the Indians, which was two young 

 fawns taken out of the does' bellies, and boiled in 

 the same slimy bags nature had placed them in, 

 and one of the country hares, stewed with the guts 

 in her belly, and her skin with the hair on. This 

 new fashioned cookery wrought abstinence in our 

 fellow travelers, which I somewhat wondered at, 

 because one of them made nothing of eating alle- 

 gators as heartily as if it had been pork and tur- 

 nips. The Indians dress most things after the 

 woodcock fashion, never taking the guts out. At 

 the house we lay at, there was very good enter- 

 tainment of venison, turkies and bears ; and which 

 is customary amongst the Indians. The Queen 

 had a daughter by a former husband, who was the 

 beautifulest Indian I ever saw, and had an air of 

 majesty with her quite contrary to the general 

 carriage of the Indians. She was very kind to the 

 English during our abode, as well as her father 

 and mother. 



This morning most of our company having some 

 inclination to go straightaway for Virginia, when 

 they left this place, I and one more took our leaves 

 of them, resolving (with God's leave) to see ISTorth 

 Carolina, one of the Indians setting us in our way. 

 The rest being indifferent which way they went, 



