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with the pointed roof as ‘‘their temple separated from the other 
howses . . . yt is builded rownde, and covered with skynne matts, 
and as yt wear compassed abowt with cortynes without windowes, 
and hath noe lighte but by the doore. On the other side is the kings 
- lodginge.”” Continuing, the account says: ‘‘They keepe their feasts 
and make good cheer together in the midds of the towne as yt is 
described in the 17 Figure.’”’ This refers to the seventeenth plate in 
De Bry, the original of which is here reproduced as plate 6, a. In the 
engraving the drawing has been reversed and a fanciful background 
added. It there bears the title ‘‘Their manner of prainge w ith Rat- 
tels abowt the fyer.’’ The description of the drawing as given by 
De Bry was probably told him by White, as follows: 
“When they have escaped any great danger by sea or lande, or be 
returned from the warr in token of Joye he make a great fyer abowt 
which the men, and woemen sitt together, holdinge a certaine fruite 
in their hands like unto a rownde pompion or a gourde, which after 
they have taken out the fruits, and the seedes, then fill with small 
stons or certayne bigg peenelts to make the more noise, and fasten 
‘that uppon a sticke, and singinge after their manner, they make 
metrie: as my selfe See and noted downe at my beinge amonge 
them. For it is a strange custome, and worth the observation.” 
Secotan and Pomeioc, as viewed by White, were probably typical 
of all Algonquian settlements of tidewater Maryland, Virginia, and 
Carolina. Kecoughtan, as already mentioned, stood on the north 
side of the James near its mouth, and may at one time have occupied 
the lowland near the mouth of a small stream which now forms the 
boundary between Warwick and Elizabeth City Counties. This site 
was Visited during the summer of 1915 and several stone implements, 
many bits of pottery, chips of flint and quartz, and broken shells lay 
scattered over the surface. Traces of former occupancy are to be 
found at many places along the shore both above and below the 
stream. All may have been left by the people of Kecoughtan at 
different periods. In the year 1607, soon after the arrival of the 
colonists at Jamestown, Smith wrote: 
“T was sent to the mouth of the river; to Kegquouhtan an Indian 
Towne, to trade for Corne, and try the river for Fish, but our fishing 
we could not effect by reason of the stormy weather . . . The Towne 
conteineth eighteene houses, pleasantly seated upon three acres of 
ground, uppon a plaine, half invironed with a great Bay of the great 
River, the other parte with a Baye of the other River falling into the 
great Baye, with a little Ile fit for a Castle in the mouth thereof, the 
Towne adjoyning to the maine by a necke of Land sixtie yardes.”’ 
At this time the settlement probably stood east of the boundary 
stream, in or near Hampton. Werowacomoco, the favorite village 
of Powhatan, where Capt. John Smith arrived about the beginning 
