bwanton] BARI/2 IIISTOKY OF THE CREEK INDIANS ■ 65 
I had if it ridd Long [he Bays] ere the Cassiquo himselfe came aboard mee w th a Canoa 
full of Indians presenting mee with skinns and bidding mee welcome after their manner, 
I went a ahoarewith him to see their Towne w 011 stood in sight of our Vessell, Found as to 
the forme of building in every respect like that of Eddistowe with a plaine place before 
the great round house for their bowling recreation attth'end of w ch stood a faire wooden 
( Irosseof the Spaniards ereccon. Bui I could not observe that the Indians performed any 
adoracon beforeitt. All round the Towne for a great space are several! feildsof Maizofa 
very large growth The soyle nothing inferior to the besl wee had seeneatt Eddistowe ap- 
parently more loose and light and the trees in the woods much larger and rangd att a 
greater distance all the ground under them burthened exceedingly and amongst it a 
greal variety of choice pasturage I sawe here besides the great number of peaches w ch 
the more Northerly places doe alsoe abound in some store of iigge trees very large and 
faire both fruite and plants and diverse grape vines w ch though growing without Cul- 
ture in the very throng of weedee and bushes were yett Idled with btincb.es of grapes 
to admiracon. . . . The Towne is scited on an Island made by a branch w ch cometh 
out of Brayne Sound and fa 1 loth into Port Royall about a mile above where wee landed 
a cituacon not extraordinary here. 
Here the shallop rejoined him after sailing through from St. Helena 
Sound by the inside channel. Wommony, son of the chief of Port 
Royal, and one of those whom Hilton had carried to Barbados, acted 
as its guide. Before his departure from this place Sandford left a 
surgeon named Henry Woodward to learn the language and in 
exchange took an Indian of the town with him. He says: 
I called the Cassique & another old man CHis second in Authority) and their wives 
And in sighl and heareing of the whole Towne, delivered Woodward into their charge 
telling them that when I retorned I would require him att their hands, They received 
him with such high Testimonys of Joy and thankfullnes as hughely confirmed to mee 
their great desire of our friendshipp & society, The Cassique placed Woodward by him 
uppon the Throne and after lead him forth and shewed him a large feild of Maiz w ch 
hee told him should bee his, then hee brought him the Sister of the Indian that I had 
with mee telling him that shee should tend him & dresse his victualls and be careful of 
him that soe her Brother might be the better used amongst us. 
An Indian of Edistoalso desired to accompany him, and thinking that soe hee should 
be the more acceptable hee caused himselfe to be shoaren on the Crowne after ye 
manner of the Port Royall Indians, a fashion w ch I guesse they have taken from the 
Spanish Fryers. Thereby to ingratiate themselves w th that Nation and indeed all 
along I observed a kinde of Emulacon amongst the three principall Indians of this 
Country (viz 1 ) Those of Keywaha Edistowe and Port Royall concerning us and our 
Freindshipp, Bach contending to assure it to themselves and jealous of the other 
though all be allyed and this Notw ,h standing that they knewe wee were in actuall 
warre with the Natives att Clarendon and had killled and sent away many of them, 
ffor they frequently discoursed with us concerning the warre, told us that the Natives 
were noughts they hind Sand\' and barren, their Country sickly, but if wee would 
come amongst them Wee should finde the Contrary to all their Evills, and never any 
occasion of dischargeing our Gunns but in merryment and for pastime. 
Sandford now returned toward the north and, having failed to 
make Kiawa (Charleston Harbor), landed at Charles Town on the 
Cape Fear River, July 12, 1666. 
The expedition that was to result in the permanent settlement of the 
colony of South Carolina made a landfall at Sewee (now Bull's) Bay 
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