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| 1540 Desoto |
HERNANDO de SOTO
"Saturday, the fifth of June, was the day that they entered in Chiaha; and since from Xuala [Tryon, North Carolina] all their travel had been through a mountain range and the horses were tired and thin, and the Christians likewise fatigued, it was advisable to halt and rest there; and they [the Cherokee] gave them an abundance of good corn, of which there is much... and considerable oil of walnuts and acorns which they knew how to extract very well, and it was very good and helped them very much for their sustenance, although some are wont to say that the oil of walnuts causes flatulence; notwithstanding, it is very delicious..." DeSoto, Hernando. Rodrigo Ranjel, and The King's Agent with De Soto, Luys Hernández de Biedma. Bourne, Edward Gaylord (editor) and Buckingham Smith (translator). Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida as Told by a Knight of Elvas and in a Relation by Luys Hernandez de Beidma, Factor of the Expedition. Together with an Account of de Soto's Expedition Based on the Diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, His Private Secretary Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. (New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1904). Volume 2, pages 41-157.Online facsimile edition at http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-023/summary/index.asp . Accessed December 16, 2007. |
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| Lawson 1714 |
JOHN LAWSON HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA Lawson, John. History of North Carolina. London: W. Taylor and F. Baker, 1714. |
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| Catesby 1683-1749 |
MARK CATESBY
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CAROLINA, FLORIDA ... Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and Bahama Islands, 1683-1749 - Vol. I and II, particularly section on North Carolina. browse especially - A Map of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands with Adjacent Parts |
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| Long 1725 |
ALEXANDER LONG A SMALL POSTSCRIPT ... Long, Alexander. "A Small Postscript of the Ways and Manners of the Indians Called Charikees, 1725." Southern Indian Studies 21 (1969): 3-49. |
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| Bartram 1739-1823 |
WILLIAM BARTRAM TRAVELS ... "The mountainous wilderness which I had lately traversed appeared regularly undulated as the great ocean after a tempest; the undulations gradually depressing, yet perfectly regular, as the squama of fish, or imbrications of tile on a roof: the nearest ground to me of a perfect full green; next more glaucous; and lastly almost blue as the ether with which the most distant curve of the horizon seemed to be blended. My imagination thus wholly engaged in the contemplation of this magnificent landscape, infinitely varied, and without bound, I was almost insensible or regardless of the charming objects more within my reach." [Quoted by Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain, p. 276.] "AFTER leaving Broad River, the land rises very sensibly, and the country being mountainous, our progress became daily more difficult and slow; yet the varied scenes of pyramidal hills, high forests, rich vales, serpentine rivers, and cataracts, fully compensated for our difficulties and delays. I observed the great Aconitum napellus, Delphinium perigrinum, the carminative Angelica lucida,* [ White Root.] and cerulean Malva." ..... KEOWE is a most charming situation, and the adjacent heights are naturally so formed and disposed, as with little expensive of military architecture to be rendered almost impregnable; in a fertile vale, at this season, enameled with the incarnate fragrant strawberries and blooming plants, through which the beautiful river meanders, sometimes gently flowing, but more frequently agitated, gliding swiftly between the fruitful strawberry banks, environed at various distances, by high hills and mountains, some rising boldly almost upright upon the verge of the expansive lawn, so as to overlook and shadow it, whilst others more lofty, superb, misty and blue, majestically mount far above. .... THE evening still and calm, all silent and peaceable, a vivifying gentle breeze continually wafted from the fragrant strawberry fields, and aromatic Calycanthean groves on the surrounding heights, the wary moor fowl thundering in the distant echoing hills, how the groves and hills ring with the shrill perpetual voice of the whip-poor-will! ABANDONED as my situation now was, yet thank heaven many objects met together at this time, and conspired to conciliate, and in some degree compose my mind, heretofore somewhat dejected and unharmonized: all alone in a wild Indian country, a thousand miles from my native land, and a vast distance from any settlements of white people. It is true, here were some of my own colour, yet they were strangers, and though friendly and hospitable, their manners and customs of living so different from what I had been accustomed to, administered but little to my consolation: some hundred miles yet to travel, the savage vindictive inhabitants lately ill-treated by the frontier Virginians, blood being spilt between them and the injury not yet wiped away by formal treaty; the Cherokees extremely jealous of white people travelling [sic] about their mountains, especially if they should be seen peeping in amongst the rocks or digging up their earth." 'Having gained the summit, we enjoyed a most enchanting view; a vast expanse of green meadows and strawberry fields; a a meandering river gliding through, saluting in its various turning the swelling, green, turfy knolls, embellished with parterres of flowers and fruitful strawberry beds; flocks of turkies strolling about them; herds of deer prancing in the meads or bounding over the hills; companies of young, innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native bowers of Magnolia, Azalea, Philadelphus, perfumed Calycanthus, sweet Yellow Jessamine and cerulean Glycine frutescens, disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze, and bathing their limbs in the cool fleeting streams; whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions, tantalizing them, staining their lips and cheeks with the rich fruit." [Quoted by Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain, p. 330.] Bartram, William. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates. 1739-1823 [online facsimile edition edition at http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html. Accessed December 16, 2007.] |
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| Morse 1793 |
JEDIDIAH MORSE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826, American Geography .Printed at Boston, : by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Sold at their bookstore, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street; by said Thomas, in Worcester; by Berry, Rogers and Berry, in New York; by H. and P. Rice, in Philadelphia; and by W.P. Young, in Charleston., MDCCXCIII. [1793] 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo) [MICROFILM ONLY] |
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| Brown 1795 |
JOHN BROWN JOURNAL OF TRAVEL IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, 1795 " I received a letter from Mr. Williams of Buncombe and Wrote an answer. On the st day of May I staid in Town and went to the Singing School. In the afternoon I Darnk some Toddy in Company with Col. McDowell and on the 2nd I started and wrode 1 mile to Cuttaby River and Continued 15 miles to Linvil River and crossed and Rode 9 miles to the North Cove and fed my hoarse and continued 9 miles across the Blew Ridge or Mountain to the Toe River and Stoped at Mr. Devinports when I arrived I inquired for Mr. McCoy who was Surveying for me his hands was waiting for me and he had gone home to get some Clothes it is Saturday Evening. On Sunday the 3rd I staid for his return. This Mr. Davenport was a Methodist. About ten or Elevin O'Clock there was seats Prepared. I found that we were to have a Sermon. I seated myself near one of the doars and looked for our Orator. After a Considerable spell of Grunting there was a man rose up Dressed in a very indifferent apparel. He had a midling good Pair of old mocasons his leggons that was wonce linen But what they were is more than I can describe. He Prayed they got up and sung their hyms. I sot still all the Time he told them a grate many little things & made a Shoart Sermon. In the afternoon I wal,k out and Red some my letters to divert myself. ..." See Vance Brown Collection "John Brown's Journal of Travel in Western North Carolina in 1795." Edited by A.R. Newsome. North Carolina Historical Review 11 (1934). |
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