66 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY r bull. 73 
on the 15th or 16th of March, 1670, and anchored at the south end of 
Oni-see-cau (now Bull's) Island. The longboat was sent ashore. 
Vpon its approach to ye Land few were ye natiues who vpon ye Strand made fires 
& came towards vs whooping in theire own tone & manner making signes also where 
we should best Land & when we came a shoare they stroked vs on ye shoulders with 
their hands saying Bony Conraro Angles, knowing us to be English by our Collours ( as 
wee supposed) we then gave them Brass rings & tobacco at which they seemed well 
pleased, & into ye boats after halfe an howre spent with ye Indians we betooke our 
selues, they liked our Company soe well that they would haue come a board with us. 
we found a pretty handsome channell about 3 fathoms & a halfe from ye place we 
Landed to ye Shippe, through which the next day we brought ye shipp to Anchor 
feareing a contrary winde & to gett in for some fresh watter. A day or two after ye 
Gouerno r whom we tooke in at Bermuda with seuerall others went a shoare to view ye 
Land here. Some 3 Leagues distant from the shipp, carrying along with us one of ye 
Eldest Indians who accosted us ye other day, & as we drew to ye shore A good number 
of Indians appeared clad with deare skins hauing with them their bows & Arrows, but 
our Indian calling out Appada they withdrew & lodged theire bows & returning ran 
up to ye middle in mire & watter to carry us a shoare where when we came they gaue 
us ye stroaking Complim 1 of ye country and brought deare skins some raw some drest 
to trade with us for which we gaue them kniues beads & tobacco and glad they were 
of ye Market, by & by came theire women clad in their Mosse roabs bringing their 
potts to boyle a kinde of thickening which they pound & make food of, & as they 
order it being dryed makes a pretty sort of bread, they brought also plenty of Hickery 
nutts, a wall nut in shape, & taste onely differing in ye thicknees of the shell & small- 
ness of ye kernell. the Gouerno r & seu'all others walking a little distance from ye 
water side came to ye Hutt Pallace of his Ma'y of ye place, who meeteing vs tooke ye 
Gouerno r on his shoulders & carryed him into ye house in token of his chearfull Enter- 
tainement. here we had nutts & root cakes such as their women useily make as before 
& watter to drink for they use no other lickquor as I can Learne in this Countrey, 
while we were here his Ma'?" three daughters entred the Pallace all in new roabs of 
new mosse which they are neuer beholding to ye Taylor to trim up, with plenty of 
beads of diuers Collours about their necks: I could not imagine that ye sauages would 
so well deport themselues who coming in according to their age & all to sallute the 
strangers, stroaking of them, these Indians understanding our business to S l Hellena 
told us that ye Westoes a rangeing sort of people reputed to be the Man eaters had 
ruinated y l place killed seu'all of those Indians destroyed & burnt their Habitations 
& that they had come as far as Kayawah doeing the like there, ye Casseeka of which 
place was within one sleep of us (which is 24 howrs for they reckon after that rate) 
with most of his people whome in two days after came aboard of us. 1 
These people were probably of Siouan stock, but they bordered 
directly upon the Cusabo tribes and this account of them will give 
us a slight opportunity to compare the two peoples. This and the 
short notice that appears in Lawson embrace practically all of the 
information we have regarding the Sewee Indians, if such indeed 
they were. 
Taking the chief of Kayawah, "a uery Ingenious Indian & a great 
Linguist in this Maine," with them the prospective settlers now 
sailed to Port Royal, where they anchored, but it was two days 
before they could speak with an Indian, when what had been told 
' S. Car. Hist. Soc. Colls, v, pp. 165-166. 
