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reception. Leaving tliere a sick man of their party, tliey started on again 

 tlie next day toward the " Tolera^ town " in the mountains. After going, 

 according to their estimate, about 100 miles in a general southwesterly 

 direction, crossing the "Sapong river" several times and climbing 

 several smaller mountain ridges, they came to the Tolera (misprint for 

 Totera or Tutelo) village located on the headwaters of the Roanoke 

 (Dan) and encircled by mountains. The site was probably about the 

 present state line southwest of Stuart, in Patrick c<mnty, Virginia, or 

 possibly within the limits of North Carolina. Here again they were 

 "exceedingly civilly entertained," and having rested a few days they 

 pushed on across the Blue ridge and came down on the other side to 

 the headwaters of New river. After making some further explorations 

 in that direction, they recrossed the mountains and came back as they 

 went, meeting from Tolera, Hanohaski, and Sapong the same kind treat- 

 ment that they had experienced on their outward journey, and at last 

 arrived at the Appomattoc town after an absence of exactly one month. 

 From their narrative it is evident that the three tribes mentioned, all 

 of whom had already obtained firearms, were in alliance and were also 

 friendly with the Mohetan, living west of the Blue ridge (N. Y., 5). 



The Ilauohaskie village of Batts may be the Pintahje of Lederer. 

 The latter did not meet the tribe here desigated as the Tolera, as they 

 were far remote from tlie regular lines of travel, and after leaving the 

 village which he calls Sapon he turned off to strike the trail which 

 crossed the lloanoke at the Occaneec'hi village about Clarksville, Vir- 

 ginia. The chief difficulty in comparing the narratives arises from the 

 fact that the names Ycsang and Tutelo, iu their various forms, are 

 used both specifically and collectively. 



COLLATERAL TRIBES. 



Before treating of these better known names, several other tribal 

 names or synonyms, for each of which there is but a single authority, 

 nuiy be mentioned. They were all probably of the same Manahoac or 

 Monacau connection, but it is impossible to identify them positively 

 with any of the tribes mentioned by Smith or with any of those prom- 

 inent in the later colonial records. This is not necessary, however, as 

 Smith himself, in speaking of the two Virginia confederacies just 

 referred to, distinctly states that each had other tribes besides those 

 which he names, while as for the interior of Carolina, it was entirely 

 unknown excepting along the line of the great trading i)ath until after 

 the Tuskarora war of 1711 and the Yamasi war of 1715 had brought 

 about an upheaval and readjustment of tribal relations by which nmuy 

 of the old names disappeared and new ones took their place. In the 

 meantime the Indian wars of Bacon's rebellion and the constant 

 inroads of the Iroquois had served further to complicate the i)rob]em. 



Tlte Mahoc. — Lederer is the sole authority for this tribe. From his 

 narrative it appears that in 1070 they were living on the upper James, 



