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A49917	The discoveries of John Lederer in three several marches from Virginia to the west of Carolina and other parts of the continent begun in March, 1669 and ended in September, 1670 : together with a general map of the whole territory which he traversed / collected and translated out of Latine from his discourse and writings, by Sir William Talbot, Baronet.	Lederer, John.; Talbot, William, Sir.	1672 (1672)	Wing L835; ESTC R20763	18,654	37

into the Lake of Vshery I came to the Town which was more populous then any I had seen before in my March The King dwells some three miles from it and therefore I had no opportunity of seeing him the two nights which I stayed there This Prince though his Dominions are large and populous is in continual fear of the Oustack-Indians seated on the opposite side of the Lake a people so addicted to Arms that even their women come into the field and shoot Arrows over their husbands shoulders who shield them with Leathern Targets The men it seems should fight with Silver-Hatchets for one of the Vsheryes told me they were of the same metal with the Pomel of my Sword They are a cruel generation and prey upon people whom they either steal or force away from the Vsheryes is Periago's to sacrifice to their Idols The Vshery-women delight much in feather-ornaments of which they have great variety but Peacocks in most esteem because rare in those parts They are reasonably handsome and have more of civility in their carriage then I observed in the other Nations with whom I conversed which is the reason that the men are more effeminate and lazie These miserable wretches are strangely infatuated with illusions of the devil it caused no small horrour in me to see one of them wrythe his neck all on one side foam at the mouth stand bare-foot upon burning coals for near an hour and then recovering his senses leap out of the fire without hurt or signe of any This I was an eye-witness of The water of Vshery-lake seemed to my taste a little brackish which I rather impute to some mineral-Mineral-waters which flow into it then to any saltness it can take from the Sea which we may reasonably suppose is a great way from it Many pleasant Rivulets fall into it and it is stored with great plenty of excellent fish I judged it to be about ten leagues broad for were not the other shore very high it could not be discerned from Vshery How far this Lake tends Westerly or where it ends I could neither learn or guess Here I made a days stay to inform my self further in these Countries and understood both from the Vsheries and some Sara-Indians that came to trade with them that two-days journey and a half from hence to the Southwest a powerful Nation of Bearded men were seated which I suppose to be the Spaniards because the Indians never have any it being an universal custom amongst them to prevent their growth by plucking the young hair out by the roots Westward lies a Government inhospitable to strangers and to the North over the Suala-mountains lay the Rickohockans I thought it not safe to venture my self amongst the Spaniards lest taking me for a Spy the would either make me away or condemn me to a perpetual Slavery in their Mines Therefore not thinking fit to proceed further the eight and twentieth of June I faced about and looked homewards To avoid Wisacky-Marish I shaped my course Northeast and after three days travel over hilly ways where I met with no path or road I fell into a barren Sandy desert where I suffered miserably for want of water the heat of the Summer having drunk all the Springs dry and left no signe of any but the Gravelly chanels in which they run so that if now and then I had not found a standing Pool which provident Nature set round with shady Oaks to defend it from the ardour of the Sun my Indian companion horse and self had certainly perished with thirst In this distress we travelled till the twelfth of July and then found the head of a River which afterwards proved Eruco in which we received not onely the comfort of a necessary and seasonable refreshment but likewise the hopes of coming into a Country again where we might finde Game for food at least if not discover some new Nation or People Nor did our hopes fail us for after we had crossed the River twice we were led by it upon the fourteenth of July to the Town of Katearas a place of great Indian Trade and Commerce and chief Seat of the haughty Emperour of the Zoskiroro's called Kackusara vulgarly K●●k●●● His grim Majestie upon ●●y first appearance demanded my Gun and Shot which I willingly parted with to ransom my self out of his clutches for he was the most proud imperious Barbarian that I met with in all my Marches The people here at this 〈◊〉 seemed prepared for some extraordinary Solemnity for the men and the women of better sort had decked themselves very fine with pieces of bright Copper in their hair and ears and about their arms and neck which upon Festival occasions they use as an extraordinary bravery by which it should seem this Country is not without rich Mines of Copper But I durst not stay to inform my self further in it being jealous of some sudden mischief towards me from Kaskous his nature being bloudy and provoked upon any slight occasion Therefore leaving Katearas I travelled through the Woods until the sixteenth upon which I came to Kawitziokan an Indian town upon a branch of Rorenoke-river which here I passed over continuing my journey to Menchoerinck and on the seventeenth departing from thence I lay all night in the Woods and the next morning betimes going by Natoway I reached that evening Apamatuck in Virginia where I was not a little overjoyed to see Christian faces again The third and last EXPEDITION From the Falls of Rappahanock-River in Virginia due West to the top of the Apalataean Mountains ON the twentieth of August 1670 Col. Catlet of Virginia and my self with nine English Horse and five Indians on foot departed from the house of one Robert Talifer and that night reached the falls of Rappahanock-river in Indian Mantepeuck The next day we passed it over where it divides into two branches North and South keeping the main branch North of us The three and twentieth we found it so shallow that it onely wet our horses hoofs The four and twentieth we travelled thorow the Savanae amongst vast herds of Red and Fallow Deer which stood gazing at us and a little after we came to the Promontories or Spurs of the Apalataean-mountains These Savanae are low grounds at the foot of the Apalataeans which all the Winter Spring and part of the Summer lie under snow or water when the snow is dissolved which falls down from the Mountains commonly about the beginning of June and then their verdure is wonderful pleasant to the eye especially of such as having travelled through the shade of the vast Forest come out of a melancholy darkness of a sudden into a clear and open skie To heighten the beauty of these parts the first Springs of most of those great Rivers which run into the Atlantick Ocean or Cheseapeack Bay do here break out and in various branches interlace the flowry Meads whose luxurious herbage invites numerous herds of Red Deer for their

Albion or California from whence we may imagine some great arm of the Indian Ocean or Bay stretches into the Continent towards the Apalataean Mountains in the nature of a mid-land Sea in which many of these Indians might have perished To confirm my opinion in this point I have heard several Indians testifie that the Nation of Rickohockans who dwell not far to the Westward of the Apalataean Mountains are seated upon a Land as they term it of great Waves by which I suppose they mean the Sea-shore The next day after my arrival at Akenatzy a Rickohockan Ambassadour attended by five Indians whose faces were coloured with Auripigmentum in which Mineral these parts do much abound was received and that night invited to a Ball of their fashion but in the height of their mirth and dancing by a smoke contrived for that purpose the Room was suddenly darkned and for what cause I know not the Rickohockan and his Retinue barbarously murthered This struck me with such an affrightment that the very next day without taking my leave of them I slunk away with my Indian Companion Though the desire of informing my self further concerning some Minerals as Auripigmentum c. which I there took special notice of would have perswaded me to stay longer amongst them had not the bloody example of their treachery to the Rickohockans frighted me away The fourteenth of June pursuing a South-southwest course sometimes by a beaten path and sometimes over hills and rocks I was forc'd to take up my quarters in the Woods for though the Oenock-Indians whom I then sought were not in a direct line above thirty odde miles distant from Akenatzy yet the Ways were such and obliged me to go so far about that I reached not Oenock until the sixteenth The Country here by the industry of these Indians is very open and clear of wood Their Town is built round a field where in their Sports they exercise with so much labour and violence and in so great numbers that I have seen the ground wet with the sweat that dropped from their bodies their chief Recreation is Slinging of stones They are of mean stature and courage covetous and thievish industrious to earn a peny and therefore hire themselves out to their neighbours who employ them as Carryers or Porters They plant abundance of Grain reap three Crops in a Summer and out of their Granary supply all the adjacent parts These and the Mountain-Indians build not their houses of Bark but of Watling and Plaister In Summer the heat of the weather makes them chuse to lie abroad in the night under thin arbours of wilde Palm Some houses they have of Reed and Bark they build them generally round to each house belongs a little hovel made like an oven where they lay up their Corn and Mast and keep it dry They parch their Nuts and Acorns over the fire to take away their rank Oyliness which afterwards pressed yeeld a milky liquor and the Acorns an Amber-colour'd Oyl In these mingled together they dip their Cakes at great Entertainments and so serve them up to their guests as an extraordinary dainty Their Government is Democratick and the Sentences of their old men are received as Laws or rather Oracles by them Fourteen miles West-Southwest of the Oenocks dwell the Shackory-Indians upon a rich Soyl and yet-abounding in Antimony of which they shewed me considerable quantities Finding them agree with the Oenocks in Customs and Manners I made no stay here but passing thorow their Town I travelled till the nineteenth of June and then after a two days troublesome Journey thorow Thickets and Marish grounds I arrived at Watary above fourty miles distant and bearing West-Southwest to Shakor This Nation differs in Government from all the other Indians of these parts for they are Slaves rather then Subjects to their King Their present Monarch is a grave man and courteous to strangers yet I could not without horrour behold his barbarous Superstition in hiring three youths and sending them forth to kill as many young women of their Enemies as they could light on to serve his son then newly dead in the other world as he vainly fancyed These youths during my stay returned with skins torn off the heads and faces of three young girls which they presented to his Majestie and were by him gratefully received I departed from Watary the one and twentieth of June and keeping a West-course for near thirty miles I came to Sara here I found the ways more level and easie Sara is not far distant from the Mountains which here lose their height and change their course and name for they run due West and receive from the Spaniards the name of Suala From these Mountains or Hills the Indians draw great quantities of Cinabar with which beaten to powder they colour their faces this Mineral is of a deeper Purple then Vermilion and is the same which is in so much esteem amongst Physitians being the first element of Quicksilver I did likewise to my no small admiration find hard cakes of white Salt amongst them but whether they were made of sea-Sea-water or taken out of Salt-pits I know not but am apt to believe the later because the Sea is so remote from them Many other rich Commodities and Minerals there are undoubtedly in these parts which if possessed by an ingenious and industrious people would be improved to vast advantages by Trade But having tied my self up to things onely that I have seen in my Travels I will deliver no Conjectures Lingua sile non est ultra narrabile quidquam These Indians are so indiscreetly fond of their children that they will not chastise them for any mischief or insolence A little Boy had shot an Arrow thorow my body had I not reconciled him to me with gifts and all this anger was because I spurred my horse out of another Arrows way which he directed at him This cause such a mutiny amongst the Youth of the Town that the Seniors taking my horse and self into protection had much ado and that by intreaties and prayers not commands to appease them From Sara I kept a South-Southwest course until the five and twentieth of June and then I reached Wisacky This three-days march was more troublesome to me then all my travels besides for the direct way which I took from Sara to Wisacky is over a continued Marish over-grown with Reeds from whose roots sprung knotty stumps as hard and sharp as Flint I was forc'd to lead my horse most part of the way and wonder that he was not either plunged in the Bogs or lamed by those rugged knots This Nation is subject to a neighbour-King residing upon the bank of a great Lake called Vshery invironed of all sides with Mountains and Wisacky Marish and therefore I will detain the Reader no longer with the discourse of them because I comprehend them in that of Vshery The six and twentieth of June having crossed a fresh River which runs