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to all the rest of the Coast, and foure of my Company (vizt.) Lt. : Harvey, Lt: Woory, 
M r Thomas Giles and m r Henry Woodward forwardly off ring themselves to the service 
haveing alsoe some Indians aboard mee who constantly resided there night & day J 
permitted them to goe -with Shadoo they retorned to mee the next morning w' h great 
Comendacons of their entertainment but especially of the goodness of the land they 
marcht through and the delightful] situation of the Towne. Telling mee withall that 
the Cassique himselfe appeared not (pretending some indisposition, but that his state 
was supplyed by a Female who received them with gladness and ( 'ourtesy placeing 
my Lt: Harvey on the seat by her their relation gave myselfe a Curiosity (they alsoe 
assureing mee that it was not above foure Miles off) to goe and see that Towne and 
takeing with mee Capt. George Cary and a file of men I marched thitherward followed 
by a long traine of Indians of whome some or other always presented yimselfe to carry 
mee on his shoulders over any the branches of Creekes or plashy corners of Marshes in 
our Way. This walke though it tend to the Southward of the West and consequently 
leads neere alongst the Sea Coast Yett it opened to our Viewe soe excellent a Country 
both for Wood land and Meadowes as gave singular satisfaction to all my Company. 
We crossed one Meadowe of not lesse than a thousand Acres all firme good land and as 
rich a Soyle as any clothed w th a ffine grasse not passing knee deepe, but very thick 
sett & fully adorned with yeallow flowers. A pasture not inferiour to any I have 
seene in England the wood land were all of the same sort both for timber and mould 
with the best of those wee had ranged otherwhere and w ,h out alteration or abatement 
from their goodnes all the way of our March. Being entered the Towne wee were con- 
ducted into a large house of a Circular forme (their generall house of State) right 
against the entrance way a high seate of sufficient breadth for half a dozen persons on 
which sate the Cassique himselfe (vouchsafeing mee that favour) w th his wife on his 
right hand (shee who had received those whome I had sent the evening before) hee was 
an old man of a large stature and bone. Round the house from each side the throne 
quite to the Entrance were lower benches filled with the whole rabble of men Women 
and children in the center of this house is kept a constant fire mounted on a great heape 
of Ashes and surrounded with little lowe foormes Capt: Cary and my selfe were placed 
on the higher seate on each side of the Cassique and presented with skinns accompanied 
with their Ceremonyes of Welcome and freindshipp (by stroaking our shoulders with 
their palmes and sucking in theire breath the whilst) The Towne is scituate on the side 
or rather in the skirts of a faire forrest in w ch at severall distances are diverse feilds of 
Maiz with many little houses straglingly amongst them for the habitations of the par- 
ticular families. On the East side and part of the South It hath a large prospect over 
meadows very spatious and delightfull, before the Doore of their Statehouse is a spa- 
tious walke rowed w ltl trees on both sides tall & full branched, not much unlike to 
Elms w eh serves for the Exercise and recreation of the men who by Couples runn after 
a marble bowle troled out alternately by themselves with six foote staves in their 
hands w oh they tosse after the bowle in their race and according to the laying of their 
staves wine or loose the beeds they contend for an Exercise approveable enough in the 
winter but some what too violent (mee thought) for that season and noone time of the 
day from this w T alke is another lesse aside from the round house for the children to sport 
in. After a fewe houres stay I retorned to my Vessell w ,h a greate troope of Indians att 
my heeles. The old Cassique himselfe in the number, who lay aboard mee that night 
without the society of any of his people, some scores of w oh lay in boothes of their own 
immediate ereccon on the beach. 
After this Sandford passed around through Dawho River and out 
by the South Edisto. Soon after he fell in with the shallop from 
which he had been separated and then made south to the entrance 
of Port Royal, where he anchored in front of the principal Indian 
town. 
