78 SIOUAN TRIBES OF THE EAST. [ethnology 



Seretee. — Lawson, op. cit., p. 45. 



Zaniees. — Howe in Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, 1854, vol. iv, p. 1.55. 



Chirhanees. — Rivers (anonymous), History of South Carolina, 18.56, p. 36. 



Chickaree. — Howe in Schoolcraft, op. cit., p. 158. 



Guatari. — La Vandera (1569) in Smith, Docnmentos Indditos, 1857, vol. i, p. 17. 



Watarees. — Jeffreys, French Dominions in America, 1761, part i, map, p. 1.34. 



Watary. — Ledcrer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 16. 



Wateree. — Lawson (1714), op, cit., p. 56. 



Wateree ChicJcanee. — Ibid., p. 59. 



Waterrees.— Ibid., p. 99. 



Wattcree.—'MoU, Map of Carolina, 1720. 



Cmu/f/arce. — ^Adair, Hist. Am. Indians, 1775, p. 225. 



Confjarcs.— Doc. of 1719 in Rivers, Early Hist, of South Carolina, 1874, p. 92. 



CorKjarees. — Ibid., p. 93. 



Congeres. — Moll, Map of Carolina, 1720. 



Congerecs. — Lawson (1714), op. cit., p. 34. 



Congree.—L,a Tour, Map of United States, 1784. 



Conqerees — War map of 1715 in AVinsor, Hist, of Am., 1887, vol. v, p. 346. 



The Sautee and its branches, the Wateree and the Cougaree, were 

 held by the Sewee, Santee, Wateree, and Couoaree tribes, whose terri- 

 tory extended to the neighborhood of the Waxhaw and Catawba. 

 Nothing is known of their linguistic affinities, but their alliances and 

 final incorporation were with the Catawba. 



The Sewee occui^ied the coast and the lower part of the river below 

 tlie Santee, extending westward to the divide of Ashley river about 

 the present Monks Corner, in Berkeley county, South Carolina, where 

 they adjoined the EtiwaM' (Rivers, 2). Their name is preserved in 

 Sewee bay. Lawson, who met them in 1701, states that they had 

 formerly been a large tribe, but, like the other tribes of Carolina, had 

 been much wasted by smallpox and other diseases, and through the 

 effect of liquor introduced by the whites. The great mortality always 

 produced among them by smallpox was owing chietly to their universal 

 habit of plunging into the water at the critical stage of the disease in 

 order to ease themselves of the feverish burnings. 



The destruction of the Sewee was the immediate result of the fail- 

 ure of a great trading scheme which they had elaborated, but which 

 proved disastrous to the originators. Being dissatisfied with the bar- 

 gains that the traders drove with them, and having noticed that the 

 English vessels always came in at one particular harbor, they con- 

 cluded that by starting from the same point with their canoes they 

 could easily reach England, which they would not believe was so far 

 off as the whites said, and there do their own trading to better advan- 

 tage. Accordingly, after having deliberated the matter in council, 

 they prepared a fleet of large canoes, which they loaded with a full 

 stock of their finest furs and what they supposed were sufficient sup- 

 plies for the voyage. In order not to be cheated out of the reward of 

 their enterprise, the plan and preparation were kept a secret from their 

 neighboring tribes. When the fleet was ready they embarked nearly 



