in which I might have my passage. I laid hold on this 

 opportunity." ****** 



Arriving in America, first at 'New York, which settle- 

 ment he briefly describes, he left there "after a fort- 

 night's stay and in fourteen days after arrived at Charles- 

 Town, the metropolis of South Carolina." 



In his "A Journal of a Thousand Miles Travel among 

 the Indians from South to North Carolina," he relates 

 further: "On December 28, 1700, I began my voyage (for 

 North Carolina) from Charles-Town, being six Englishmen 

 in company, with three Indian men and one woman, wife 

 to our Indian guide." 



With the above information on the character of the man, 

 the date and nature of his trip, we may turn more intelli- 

 gently to that part of his work with which we are more 

 directly concerned. In his description of the country, he 

 treats North and South Carolina separately, but in 

 the portion called ' 'The Natural History of Carolina, ' ' he 

 considers Carolina as a whole. The following is quoted 

 from the introduction to his history in support of this . 

 statement: "And since the produce of South and North 

 Carolina is the same, unless silk, which this place pro- 

 duces great qualities of and very good. North Carolina 

 having never made any tryal thereof, I shall- refer the 

 natural produce of this country to that part which treats 

 of North Carolina, whose productions are much the same. 

 ****# + * 



I shall now proceed to relate my journey thru the country 

 from this settlement to the other, and then treat of the 

 Natural History of Carolina, with other remarkable cir- 

 cumstances which I have met with during my eight years 

 abode in that country. " 



Under a subdivision of the natural history entitled ' 'The 

 Vegetables of Carolina," we find eighteen pages devoted- 

 to ' 'an account of all the spontaneous fruits of Carolina, 

 that have come to my knowledge, excepting services, 

 which I have seen in Indian's hands, and eat of them, but 

 never saw how or where they grew." As indicating the 

 subject matter dealt with in the succeeding eight pages 



