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Ther are but few howses therin, saue those which belonge to the kinge and 

 his nobles. On the one side is their tempel separated from the other howses, 

 and marked with the letter A. Tt is builded rownde, and covered with skynne 

 matts, and as it wear compassed abowt with cortynes without windowes, and 

 hath noe lighte but by the doore. On the other side is the kings lodginge marked 

 with the letter B. Their dwellinges are builded with certaine poles fastened 

 together, and couered with matts which they turne op as high as they thinke 

 good, and soe receue in the lighte and other. Some are also couered with 

 boiighes of trees, as euery man lusteth or liketh best. They keepe their feasts 

 and make good cheer together in the midds of the towne as yt is described in 

 the 17. Figure. When the towne standeth fare from the water they digg a great 

 ponde noted with the letter C wherheiice they fetche as muche water as they 

 neede. [PI. 77.] 



Their townes that are not inclosed with poles are commonlye fayrer then 

 suche as are inclosed, as appereth in this figure which liuelye expresseth the 

 towne of Secotam. For the howses are Scattered heer and ther, and they haue 

 a gardein expressed by the letter E. wherin groweth Tobacco which the in- 

 habitants call Vppowoc. They hauve also groaues wherein thei take deer, and 

 fields wherin they sowe their corne. In their corne fields they builde as yt 

 weare a scaffolde wher on they sett a cottage like to a rownde chaire, signiffied 

 by F. wherin they place one to watche, for there are suche a nomber of fowles, 

 and beasts, that vnless they keepe the better watche, they would soone deuoure 

 all their corne. For which cause the watcheman maketh continual cryes and 

 noyse. They sowe their corne with a certaine distance noted by H. other 

 wise one stalke would choke the growthe of another and the corne would not 

 come vnto his ryijenes G. For the leaves therof are large, like vnto the leaues 

 of great reedes. They haue also a seuerall broade plotte C. whear after they 

 haue ended their feaste they make merrie togither. Ouer against this place 

 they haue a rownd plott B. wher they assemble themselues to make their 

 solemne prayers. Not far from which place ther is a lardge buildinge A. 

 wherin are the tombes of their kings and princes, as will appere by the 22. 

 figure likewise they haue garden notted bey the letter I. wherin they vse to 

 sowe pompions. Also a place marked with K. wherin they make a fayre att 

 their solemne feasts, and hard without the towne a riuer L. from whence they 

 fetche their water. [PI. 78.] (Hariot, 1893, pis. 19, 21.) 



Narhantes, the Coree town attacked by Barnwell in his expedition 

 against the Tuscarora in 1711, is thus described in one of his letters : 



Tho' this be called a town, it is only a plantation here and there scattered about 

 the Country, no where 5 houses together, and then 14 a mile such another and 

 so on for several miles, so it is impossible to surprize many before the alarm 

 takes. 



Shortly before his arrival they had built nine small forts, one of which 

 he stormed. Afterward he 



marched thro' the 5 Towns of the Enemy whose Country is almost as fine . . . 

 as Appalatcha. I ordered that Fruit trees w'ch are plenty both of apples & 

 peeches & Quinces to be preserved but destroyed all the rest, being about 374 

 houses, wherein there could not be less than 2000 bushells of corn. (South Caro- 

 lina Hist, and Genealog. Mag., 1908, vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 32-34.) 



The Tuscarora village of Tasqui to which GrafFenried was taken was 

 palisaded, the cabins being arranged in a circle inside with a great 

 open space in the center (De Graffenried, 1886, p. 937). 



