swamtok] i;ai;lv history of the creek Indians 67 
them at Sewee regarding the irruption of the Westo was con- 
firmed. Weighing anchor from Port Royal River they then 
ran in between S 1 Eellena & Combohe \\ here we lay at Anchor all ye time we staide 
neare ye Place where ye distressed Indian sojourned, who were glad & crying Biddy 
doddy Comorado Lnglea Westoe Skorrye (which is as much as to say) English uery 
good friends West oea are nought, they hoped by our Arriuall to be protected from e 
\\e<i ( ie~. often making signea they would ingage them with their boVes & arrows, & 
wee should with our guns they often brought vs veneson & some deare skins w° h wee 
bought of them for heads, many of us went ashore at S* llellena & brought back 
word that ye Laud was good Land supplyed with many Peach trees, & a Competence 
of timber a few figg trees & some Cedar here & theire & that there was a mile & a half 
of Cleare Land litt & ready to Plante. Oysters in great plenty all ye Islands being 
rounded w"' bankes of ye kinde, in shape longer & scarcely see any one round, yet 
good fish though not altogether of soe pleasant taste as yo r wall fleet oysters, here is 
also wilde turke which ye Indian brought but is not soe pleasant to eate of as ye tame 
but uery fleshy & farr bigger. 
A sloop which had been sent to Kiawa to examine that place now 
returned with a favorable report and the colonists sailed thither 
and made the first permanent settlement in South Carolina. 1 At 
this time we learn that that section of the province watered by the 
Stono River was full of Indian settlements. 2 
In Ma}- of the same year a sloop called The Three Brothers an- 
chored off Edisto Island — "Odistash" as they call it — and two 
chiefs, named Sheedou and AJush, who had been taken to Bar- 
bados by Hilton, came out to them and directed them to Kiawa. 3 
In a letter written to Lord Ashley from this colony by William 
Owen on September 15, 1670, he says, referring to the coast Indians: 
We haue them in a pound, for to ye Southward they will not goe fearing the Yamases 
Spanish Comeraro as ye Indians termes it. ye Westoes are behind them a mortall 
enemie of theires whom they say are ye man eaters of them they are more afraid then 
ye little children are of ye Bull beggers in England, to ye Northward they will 
not goe for their they cry y l is Hiddeskeh, y* is to say sickly, soe y l they reckon them- 
selves safe when they haue vs amongst them, from them there cann be noe danger 
ap'hended, they haue exprest vs vnexpected kindness for when ye ship went to and 
dureing her stay att Virginia provision was att the scarcest with us yet they daylie 
supplied vs y' we were better stored att her return than when she went haueing 25 
days provision in stoe beside 3 tunn of corne more w ch they promised to procuer when 
we pleased to com for it att Seweh. 1 
In a letter written to Lord Ashley on August 30, 1671, Maurice 
Mathews Bays: 
The Indians all About vs are our friends: all y' we haue knowledge of by theyre 
Appearance and braid with vs are as followeth: 
St Helena ye Southermost; Ishpow. Wimbee, Edista, Stono, Keyawah, where we 
now line, Kubsoo to ye westward of vs, Sampa, wando Ituan, Gt Pa; 6 Sewee, Santee, 
' S Car Hit SOC (oil , \, pp 166-168. 
- Carroll, Hist. Colls. S. Car., u. p. 152. 
• [bid., i«. 17H. 
•Ibid., pp. 200-201. 
s In a note the editor of the Shaftesbury Papers gives an alternative rendering s« Pa, and queries whether 
i his cribe is the Sampa or 8ampi1 repealed. There does not seem to he sufficient data for determining this 
point. 
