Travels in 
I acquainted this ancient prince and patriarch 
■with the nature and defign of my peregrinations, 
and that I was now for Co we, but having loft my 
road in the town, requefted that I might be inform* 
ed. He cheerfully replied, that he was pleafed I 
was come in their country, where I mould meet 
with friendfhip and protection, and that he would 
iriinfelf lead me into the right path. 
After ordering my horfe to the door, we went 
forth together, he on foot, and I leading my horfe 
by the bridle ; thus walking together near two miles, 
we fhook hands and parted, he returning home, and 
I continuing my journey for Cowe. 
This Prince is the chief of Whatoga, a man uni- 
verfally beloved, and particularly efteemed by the 
whites for his pacific and equitable difpofition, and 
revered by all for his exemplary virtues, juft, mode- 
rate, magnanimous and intrepid. 
He was tall and perfectly formed ; his counte- 
nance cheerful and lofty, and at the fame time truly 
characterifiic of the red men, that is, the brow 
ferocious, and the eye active, piercing or fiery, as 
an eagle. He appeared to be about fixty years of 
age, yet upright and mufcular, and his limbs a£tive 
as youth. 
After leaving my princely friend, I travelled 
about five miles through old plantations, now under 
grafsy but which appeared to have been planted the 
laft feafon ; the foil exceeding fertile, loofe, black, 
deep and fat. I arrived at Cowe about noon. This 
fettlement is efteemed the capital town ; it is fitu- 
ated on the bafes of the hills on both fides of the 
river, near to its bank, and here terminates the great 
