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  whether 
  they 
  transported 
  them 
  to 
  Europe^ 
  or 
  what 
  other 
  uses 
  they 
  made 
  

   of 
  them, 
  I 
  know 
  not, 
  having 
  occasion 
  to 
  leave 
  that 
  Country 
  soon 
  after."* 
  

  

  Catesby, 
  who 
  visited 
  South 
  Carolina 
  and 
  Georgia 
  some 
  fifty 
  years 
  

   later, 
  describes 
  the 
  buffalo 
  quite 
  minutely 
  in 
  his 
  Natural 
  History 
  of 
  Car- 
  

   olina, 
  published 
  in 
  1743, 
  showing 
  most 
  unquestionably 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  per- 
  

   sonally 
  familiar 
  with 
  it. 
  He 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  They 
  frequent 
  the 
  remote 
  parts 
  of 
  

   the 
  country 
  near 
  the 
  mountains, 
  and 
  are 
  rarely 
  seen 
  within 
  the 
  settle- 
  

   ments. 
  They 
  range 
  in 
  droves, 
  feeding 
  in 
  open 
  savannas 
  morning 
  and 
  

   evening; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  sultry 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  day, 
  they 
  retire 
  to 
  shady 
  rivu- 
  

   lets 
  of 
  clear 
  water, 
  glistening 
  through 
  thickets 
  of 
  tali 
  cane, 
  which, 
  

   though 
  a 
  hidden 
  retreat, 
  yet 
  their 
  heavy 
  bodies 
  causing 
  a 
  deep 
  impres- 
  

   sion 
  of 
  their 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  moist 
  land, 
  they 
  are 
  often 
  trac'd, 
  and 
  shot 
  by 
  

   the 
  artful 
  IiwZimis." 
  t 
  Catesby 
  tells 
  us 
  in 
  his 
  preface 
  that 
  he 
  spent 
  the 
  

   first 
  year 
  of 
  his 
  sojourn 
  in 
  America 
  in 
  Carolina, 
  in 
  the 
  settled 
  district 
  

   near 
  the 
  sea-shore, 
  and 
  passed 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  " 
  Upper 
  uninhabited 
  Parts 
  

   of 
  the 
  Country, 
  and 
  continued 
  at 
  and 
  about 
  Fort 
  Moore, 
  a 
  small 
  Fortress 
  

   on 
  the 
  Banks 
  of 
  the 
  Kiver 
  Savanna, 
  which 
  runs 
  from 
  thence 
  a 
  Course 
  

   of 
  300 
  Miles 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  Sea, 
  and 
  is 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  Distance 
  from 
  its 
  

   Source, 
  in 
  the 
  Mountains." 
  This 
  region, 
  he 
  says, 
  " 
  afforded 
  not 
  only 
  a 
  

   Succession 
  of 
  new 
  vegetable 
  Appearances, 
  but 
  most 
  delightful 
  Pros- 
  

   pects 
  imaginable, 
  besides 
  the 
  Diversion 
  of 
  Hunting 
  Buffalo's, 
  Bears^ 
  

   Panthers, 
  and 
  other 
  wild 
  Beasts." 
  | 
  

  

  Bartram 
  also 
  speaks 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  a 
  " 
  Great 
  Buffalo 
  Lick, 
  on 
  the 
  

   Great 
  Eidges 
  which 
  separate 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  Savanna 
  and 
  Alatamaha, 
  

   about 
  eighty 
  miles 
  distant 
  from 
  Augusta." 
  § 
  Again, 
  in 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  

   middle 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  Carolinas, 
  he 
  says: 
  " 
  The 
  buffalo 
  {Urus), 
  once 
  so 
  

   very 
  numerous, 
  is 
  not 
  at 
  this 
  date 
  [1773] 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  in 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   country." 
  II 
  

  

  Hewit, 
  also, 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Historical 
  Account 
  of 
  the 
  Else 
  and 
  Progress 
  of 
  

   the 
  Colonies 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina," 
  published 
  originally 
  in 
  London 
  in 
  1779, 
  

   thus 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  buffalo 
  in 
  enumerating 
  the 
  natural 
  productions 
  of 
  

   " 
  Carolina," 
  in 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  its 
  condition 
  about 
  the 
  year 
  1674 
  : 
  

   "Numbers 
  of 
  deer, 
  timorous 
  and 
  wild, 
  ranged 
  through 
  the 
  trees, 
  and 
  

   herds 
  of 
  buffaloes 
  were 
  found 
  grazing 
  in 
  the 
  savannas." 
  ^ 
  Keating 
  also 
  

   says, 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  Oolhoun 
  : 
  "And 
  we 
  know 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  those 
  

   who 
  first 
  settled 
  the 
  Abbeville 
  district 
  in 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  in 
  1756, 
  found 
  

   the 
  buffalo 
  there." 
  ** 
  

  

  Further 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  parts 
  

   of 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  Carolina 
  is 
  furnished 
  by 
  maps 
  of 
  these 
  States, 
  pre- 
  

   pared 
  about 
  1771-1775, 
  ft 
  on 
  which 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  Coldwater 
  Eiver, 
  in 
  

   what 
  is 
  now 
  Cabarrus 
  County, 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  is 
  called 
  Buffalo 
  Creek; 
  

   while 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  tributaries 
  of 
  the 
  Broad 
  Eiver 
  bear 
  the 
  names 
  

   respectively 
  of 
  Buffalo 
  Creek 
  and 
  Bullock 
  Creek. 
  In 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  

   on 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  the 
  Saluda 
  Eiver, 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  county 
  of 
  Abbeville, 
  

   a 
  swamp 
  is 
  laid 
  down 
  as 
  Buffalo 
  Swamp. 
  I 
  fail 
  to 
  find, 
  however, 
  any 
  

   of 
  these 
  names 
  preserved 
  on 
  recent 
  maps. 
  

  

  "Natural 
  History 
  of 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  1737, 
  pp. 
  107, 
  108. 
  

  

  tNat. 
  Hist. 
  Carol., 
  Fla., 
  etc., 
  1754, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  Appendix, 
  p. 
  xxvii. 
  

  

  t 
  Ibid., 
  p. 
  viii 
  of 
  preface. 
  

  

  >S 
  Travels 
  through 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  Georgia, 
  East 
  and 
  West 
  Florida, 
  etc., 
  

   1773-75, 
  pp. 
  35, 
  46. 
  

  

  II 
  Ibid., 
  p. 
  46. 
  

  

  % 
  Carroll's 
  Hist. 
  Coll. 
  S. 
  Car., 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  p. 
  78. 
  

  

  ** 
  Long's 
  Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Source 
  of 
  the 
  St. 
  Peter's 
  River, 
  etc., 
  18ii3, 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  2G. 
  

  

  tt 
  A 
  map 
  of 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  Carolina. 
  Accurately 
  compiled 
  fi-om 
  the 
  old 
  maps 
  of 
  

   James 
  Cook, 
  published 
  in 
  1771, 
  and 
  of 
  Henry 
  Mouzou, 
  in 
  1775. 
  Carroll's 
  Hist. 
  Coll, 
  

   South 
  Carolina, 
  1836, 
  Vol. 
  I. 
  

  

  