NO. 8 MANAHOAC TRIBES IN VIRGINIA BUSHNELL 5 



a yelling and hallowing they made that they heard nothing, hut now and then 

 we shot off a peece, ayming so neare as we could where we heard the most 

 voyces. More than 12 myles they followed us in this manner; then the day 

 appearing, we found our selves in a broad Bay, out of danger of their shot, 

 where wee came to an anchor, and fell to breakfast. Not so much as speaking 

 to them till the Sunne was risen. 



Being well refreshed, we untyed our Targets that covered us as a Deck, 

 and all shewed our selves with those shields on our amies, and swords in our 

 hands, and also our prisoner Ainorolcck. A long discourse there was betwixt 

 his Countrimen and him, how good wee were, how well wee used him, how wee 

 had a Patawoiitek with us, who loved us as his life, that would have slaine him 

 had wee not preserved him, and that he should have his libertie would they be 

 but friends; and to doe us any hurt was impossible. 



Upon this they all hung their Bowes and Quivers upon the trees, and one came 

 swimming aboord us with a Bow tyed on his head, and another with a Quiver 

 of Arrowes, which they delivered our Captaine as a present : the Captaine 

 having used them so kindly as he could, told them the other three Kings should 

 doe the like, and then the great King of our world should be their friend ; whose 

 men we were. It was no sooner demanded but performed, so upon a low 

 Moorish poynt of land we went to the shore, where those foure Kings came and 

 received Ainorolcck : nothing they had but Bowes, Arrowes, Tobacco-bags, and 

 Pipes : what we desired, none refused to give us, wondering at every thing 

 we had, and heard we had done : our Pistols they tooke for pipes, which they 

 much desired, but we did content them with other Commodities. And so we 

 left foure or five hundred of our merry Mainialwcks, singing, dauncing, and 

 making merry, and set sayle for Moraughtacund. 



Thus ended the first intercourse between the EngHsh and chiefs 

 of several Manahoac tribes. Other colonists may have entered the 

 country above the falls of the Rappahannock, but not until after the 

 native villages had been abandoned and the Indians had left the 

 valleys are explorers and settlers known to have traversed the ancient 

 territory of the Manahoac and to have left records of their journeys 

 into the wilderness, now the piedmont section of Virginia. 



In "The Description of Virginia", 1612, Captain Smith' wrote: 

 " The third navigable river is called TophaJianock. (This is navigable 

 some 130 mylcs.) xA.t the top of it inhabit the people called Manna- 

 hoackes amongst the mountaines, but they are above the place we 

 describe." It will be remembered that Smith and his party did not 

 enter the Manahoac country, and that all their knowledge of the posi- 

 tion of the different tribes whose villages then stood in the valleys 

 of the Rapidan and Rappahannock was evidently obtained from the 

 wounded Manahoac Indian, Amoroleck, through the Algonquian in- 

 terpreter, Mosco. Many of the native settlements were indicated on 

 the map of Virginia, issued in 1624, and their apparent accuracy is 



* Op. cit., Arber edition, p. 52. 



