THROUGH WHICH INLET DID THE ENGLISH AD- 

 VENTURERS OF 1584 ENTER THE SOUNDS 

 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



ALSO 

 SOME CHANGES IN THE COAST LINE SINCE THEIR TIME. 



COMMUNICATED BY WILLIAM L. WELCH. 



THE following extracts are from the report of the voy- 

 age under Amadas and Barlowe (written by Barlowe) 

 made in 1584. After mentioning their arrival upon the 

 coast, they say ; 



" We sailed along the same a hundred and twenty English miles be- 

 fore we could find any entrance or river issuing into the sea. The 

 first that appeared unto us we entered, though not without some dif- 

 ficulty, and cast anchor about three harquebus-shot within the haven's 

 mouth, on the left hand of the same." 



" This land lay stretching itself to the west, which after we found to 

 be but an island of twenty miles long, and not over six miles broad." 



They speak of visits of the Indians, and then say 



"After they had been divers times aboard the ships, myself with seven 

 more went twenty miles into the river that runs towards the city of 

 Skicoak, which river they call Occam ; and the evening following, we 

 came to an island, which they call Koanoak, distant from the harbor 

 by which we entered, seven leagues ; and at the north end thereof 

 was a village of nine houses." " Beyond this island there is the main 

 land, and over against this island, falls into this spacious water, the 

 great river called Occam by the inhabitants, on which stands a town 

 called Pomeiock, and six days journey from the same is situate their 

 greatest city called Skicoak." "Into this river falls another great 

 river, called Cipo, in which there is found great stores of muscles, 

 in which there are pearls ; likewise there descendeth into this Occam, 

 another river called Nomopam, on the one side whereof stands a great 

 town called Chawanook." " Towards the southwest, four days jour- 

 ney, is situated a town called Sequotan, which is the southernmost 



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