﻿492 
  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SURVEY. 
  

  

  Peter 
  Kalm, 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Travels 
  in 
  North 
  America," 
  under 
  date 
  of 
  No 
  

   vember, 
  1748, 
  also 
  thus 
  alludes 
  to 
  their 
  existence 
  "in 
  Carolina." 
  "Th 
  

   tcild 
  oxen 
  have 
  their 
  abode 
  princijDally 
  in 
  the 
  woods 
  of 
  Carolina^ 
  whichl 
  

   are 
  far 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  country. 
  The 
  inhabitants 
  frequently 
  hunt 
  them 
  and 
  

   salt 
  them 
  like 
  common 
  b6ef, 
  which 
  is 
  eaten 
  by 
  servants 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  

   class 
  of 
  people. 
  Bat 
  the 
  hide 
  is 
  of 
  little 
  use, 
  having 
  too 
  large 
  pores 
  to 
  

   be 
  made 
  use 
  of 
  for 
  shoes. 
  However, 
  the 
  poorer 
  people 
  in 
  Carolina 
  

   spread 
  their 
  hides 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  instead 
  of 
  beds."* 
  Again 
  he 
  speaks 
  

   of 
  " 
  the 
  wild 
  Cows 
  and 
  Oa:;e?i 
  .... 
  which 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  CaroMwa, 
  

  

  and 
  other 
  provinces 
  to 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  Pennsylvania 
  This 
  Americofn 
  

  

  species 
  of 
  oxen," 
  he 
  says, 
  " 
  is 
  Linnceus's 
  Bos 
  Bison, 
  /3."t 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  verbal 
  relation, 
  reported 
  by 
  Hakluyt, 
  of 
  " 
  Nicholas 
  Burgoig- 
  

   non, 
  alias 
  Holy," 
  who 
  spent 
  six 
  years 
  " 
  in 
  Florida 
  " 
  prior 
  to 
  1586, 
  Bur- 
  

   goignon 
  states 
  that 
  "the 
  Spaniards, 
  entring 
  50. 
  leagues 
  up 
  Saint 
  

   Helena, 
  found 
  Indians 
  wearing 
  golde 
  rings 
  at 
  their 
  nostrels 
  and 
  eares. 
  

   They 
  found 
  also 
  Oxen, 
  but 
  lesse 
  than 
  ours." 
  | 
  The 
  St. 
  Helena 
  here 
  

   mentioned 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  State 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  and 
  must 
  have 
  

   been 
  either 
  the 
  Combahee 
  or 
  the 
  Bdisto 
  Eiver, 
  though 
  most 
  i3robably 
  

   the 
  latter, 
  the 
  name 
  St. 
  Helena 
  being 
  still 
  retained 
  for 
  the 
  bay 
  at 
  the 
  

   mouths 
  of 
  these 
  rivers. 
  It 
  hence 
  seems 
  very 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  locality 
  

   referred 
  to 
  was 
  the 
  Abbeville 
  district 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  where 
  buffaloes 
  

   Sit 
  that 
  time 
  doubtless 
  existed. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Oglethorpe, 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  New 
  and 
  Accurate 
  Account 
  of 
  the 
  Prov- 
  

   inces 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina 
  and 
  Georgia," 
  published 
  in 
  1733, 
  makes 
  the 
  fol- 
  

   lowing 
  single 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  buffalo 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  wild 
  beasts 
  are 
  deer, 
  elks, 
  

   bears, 
  wolves, 
  buffaloes, 
  wild 
  boars, 
  and 
  abundance 
  of 
  hares 
  and 
  rabbits 
  ; 
  

   they 
  have 
  also 
  a 
  catamountain, 
  or 
  small 
  leopard 
  ; 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  dan- 
  

   gerous 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  East 
  Indies." 
  § 
  

  

  Francis 
  Moore, 
  writing 
  in 
  1744, 
  referring 
  to 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  the 
  buf- 
  

   falo 
  from 
  St. 
  Simon's 
  Island, 
  adds 
  that 
  "there 
  are 
  large 
  herds 
  there 
  

   upon 
  the 
  Main." 
  II 
  

  

  Governor 
  Glen, 
  in 
  his 
  "Description 
  of 
  Carolina," 
  published 
  in 
  1761, 
  

   enumerates 
  " 
  Buffaloes 
  " 
  in 
  his 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Wild 
  Beasts, 
  etc., 
  of 
  the 
  

   Forest."^ 
  

  

  Drayton, 
  writing 
  in 
  1802, 
  also 
  enumerates 
  the 
  buffalo 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   animals 
  formerly 
  existing 
  in 
  South 
  Carolina. 
  He 
  says,' 
  " 
  The 
  buffalo 
  

   and 
  cat-a-mount 
  are 
  entirely 
  exterminated 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  side 
  of 
  our 
  

   mountains." 
  ** 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  former 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  upper 
  parts 
  " 
  of 
  

   the 
  Carolinas 
  " 
  near 
  the 
  mountains 
  " 
  is 
  a 
  well-established 
  fact 
  of 
  history, 
  

   its 
  absence 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  from 
  the 
  low 
  country 
  near 
  the 
  coast 
  seems 
  

   equally 
  certain. 
  As 
  early 
  as 
  1562, 
  Jean 
  Eibault 
  (or 
  Eibaut) 
  landed 
  at 
  

   Port 
  Eoyal, 
  and 
  explored 
  to 
  some 
  distance 
  into 
  the 
  interior 
  ft 
  without 
  

   meeting 
  with 
  buffaloes, 
  as 
  did 
  also 
  Hilton, 
  || 
  in 
  1663, 
  and 
  numerous 
  other 
  

   travellers 
  later, 
  many 
  of 
  whom 
  have 
  given 
  detailed 
  enumerations 
  of 
  the 
  

   animals 
  they 
  met 
  with. 
  While 
  every 
  species 
  of 
  mammal 
  now 
  known 
  

   to 
  exist 
  there, 
  from 
  the 
  squirrel 
  to 
  the 
  deer, 
  is 
  mentioned, 
  the 
  buffalo 
  is 
  

  

  * 
  Travels 
  into 
  North 
  America, 
  Forster's 
  Translatiou, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  p. 
  287. 
  

   t 
  Ibid, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  p. 
  207. 
  

   X 
  Hakluyt, 
  Voyages, 
  etc. 
  , 
  Vol. 
  Ill, 
  p. 
  433. 
  

   § 
  Collections 
  of 
  the 
  Georgia 
  Historical 
  Society, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  p. 
  51. 
  

   II 
  A 
  Voyage 
  to 
  Georgia, 
  etc., 
  p. 
  55. 
  

   il 
  Description 
  of 
  Carolina, 
  p. 
  68. 
  

   ** 
  Drayton 
  (John), 
  View 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  p. 
  88. 
  

  

  ttSee 
  Laudonniure's 
  narrative 
  in 
  Hakluyt's 
  Voyages, 
  Vol. 
  Ill, 
  pp. 
  367-427. 
  

   U 
  Hilton 
  (William), 
  A 
  Relation 
  of 
  a 
  Discovery'latelv 
  made 
  on 
  the 
  Coast 
  of 
  Florida, 
  

   etc., 
  London, 
  1664 
  (Force's 
  Coll. 
  Hiat. 
  Tracts, 
  Vol. 
  IV, 
  No. 
  2, 
  p. 
  8). 
  

  

  'I 
  

  

  <4I 
  

  

  