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in 1579; Lftwsou luentious tbem, but lie did not meet tliein in liis journey 

 in 1701, as tliey lived below the point at Avliidi the regular trading path 

 crossed the river. He incidentally mentions meeting among the Eno 

 a slave taken from this tribe (Lawson, 8). Nothing more of them is 

 known beyond the general statement by Martin that they and other 

 tribes of that region joined the Yamasi against the English in the 

 war of 1715. 



The proper name of the Cape Fear Indians is unknown. This local 

 term was appLfed by the early colonists to the tribe formerly living 

 about the lower part of Capo Fear river in the southeastern corner of 

 North Carolina. Their first intimate acquaintance with the English 

 was made about the year 1001, when a colony from New England made 

 a settlement near the mouth of the river, but soon incurred the ill will of 

 the Indians by seizing their children and sending them away, ostensibly 

 to instruct them in the ways of civilization, but really as the Indians 

 believed, with a semblance of probability, to make them slaves. The 

 result was that the Cape Fear Indians, although as yet Avithout guns, 

 began a determined war against the colonists and tinally succeeded in 

 driving them from the coimtry. In 1003 another party, from Barba- 

 does, explored the river and its branches for a considerable distance. 

 Not far from the mouth they found an Indian settlement called Necoes 

 (narrative of 1003, in Lawson, p. 115), together with numerous cleared 

 fields of corn. They found the Indians generally friendly, manifesting 

 their friendship by cries of " bonny bonny," which may have been a 

 reminiscence of previous contact with Spaniards. The Indians gave 

 them corn and other provisions, and in return received presents of 

 beads. One of the Indians, however, shot an arrow at them as they 

 were passing under a cliff. They jiursued and fired at him but missed. 

 Afterward they came upon him in his canoe. What follijwed, as told 

 in their own words, well indicates the summary methods of the English 

 in dealing with the Indians : 



We went ou shore and cut the same iu pieces. The ludians perceiving us coming 

 towards tlieni ran away. Coing to Lis hut we pulled it down, broke his pots, plat- 

 ters, and spoons, tore the deerskins and mats iu pieces aud took away a hasket of 

 acorns. 



' Notwithstanding this severity, the Indians at the next village received 

 the whites kindly, and their chief expressed the greatest regret and 

 displeasure at the misconduct of his man. They afterward "made a 

 purchase of the river and land of Cape Fair, of Wat Coosa and such 

 other Indians as appeared to us to be the chief of those parts." The 

 tribe seemed to be populous, with numerous villages along the river, 

 and excepting in the single instance mentioned, displayed the utmost 

 friendly feeling toward the whites (Lawson, 9). In 1005 another colony 

 settled at the mouth of Oldtowh creek, in Brunswick county, on the 

 southern side of the river, on a tra<?t bouglit of the Indians, who still 



