Carolina, like Rhode Island, was a place of refuge for schismatics of all kinds, who now “lived lonely in the woods, with great dogs to guard their houses;” men and women of thoughtful minds “open to the conviction of truth,” and who received the preachings and teachings of George Fox and his brethren with great joy; and not only they of the poorer sort, but the richer and more influential inhabitants of the province, heard him gladly and received him as an honoured guest to their houses. The plantations of that day, we are told, lay along the bay and the rivers that flow into it, and these and the inlets were the highways of Carolina; therefore we find George Fox and his friends taken, on one occasion, in a boat lent them by a kind-hearted man, a captain of the country, to the house of the governor, who, with his wife, received them very lovingly, and the next morning accompanied them courteously two miles through the woods to the water’s edge, and so on to the house of Joseph Scot, one of the representatives of the county, where they had “a sound and precious meeting, and the people were very tender.” Again, he was at the house of the secretary, to arrive at which, however, they had “much ado, for the water was shallow and the boat could not come ashore, but the secretary’s wife, he being from home, seeing their strait, put out in her little canoe and brought them to land.” These little touches of life and character are worth pages of laboured description; they show the spirit of the people; they show the joy with which Fox and his friends were welcomed, when the wife of the chief secretary herself paddled her little canoe to bring them safely on shore. It is a genuine picture of simple primeval life. And not alone did George Fox preach to the white settlers of “the light of the Spirit of God which is in every one,” but to the natives of the wilderness also, who approved of what he said, and “received the truth lovingly; the Indian priests themselves sitting soberly among the people listening to the words that were spoken.”