44 WHICH INLET DID THEY ENTER? 



town of Wingandacoa, near into which, six and twenty years past, 

 there was a ship cast away, whereof some of the people were saved, 

 and those were white people, whom the country people preserved. 

 And after ten days remaining in an out island uninhabited, called 

 Wocokon, they with help of some of the dwellers of Sequotan, fast- 

 ened two boats of the country together, and made masts unto them, 

 and sails of their shirts, and having taken into them such victuals as 

 the country yielded, they departed, after they had remained in this 

 out island three weeks." 



This report was accompanied by a sketch of the coast 

 and adjacent country, as they found it, extending from 

 perhaps forty miles north of Roanoke to ten miles south 

 of it ; it has five inlets drawn on it, the southern one 

 is north of the southern end of Roanoke Island, the 

 next perhaps five miles north of that ; the first one 

 north of Roanoke Island, and also north of an island ap- 

 parently "Collington's", is marked "Trinity Harbor", and 

 there are two north of this, the most northern one, might 

 be "Old Currituck Inlet" ; off these most northern inlets, 

 are anchored the two ships of the adventurers, and inside 

 apparently sailing from "Trinity Harbor" to "Roanoke 

 Island" is a boat with one square sail, full of men ; from these, 

 this sketch and the text of their report, the writer concludes 

 that they entered at "Trinity Harbor," north of ftoanoke 

 Island, which inlet was about where "Caffey" inlet used 

 to be; that their river Occam was our Albemarle Sound ; 

 that their river Nomopam was our Chowan ; and that Wo- 

 cokon, our Ocracoke, was to them an unknown place; 

 that is, they did not visit it, for if they had, it would be 

 reasonable to suppose their sketch of the coast would have 

 included it. Bancroft in his History of United States says 

 they entered at Wocokon (our Ocracoke) but it is simply an 

 assertion, and can not be proved. Hawks' History of North 

 Carolina gives New Inlet, south of Roanoke Island, as the 

 place of entrance ; and that the Occam was a part of the 



