Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and 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.Bartram, William
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Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and 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.
Bartram, William
Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States; Indians of North America -- Southern States; Natural history -- Southern States; Southern States -- Description and travel
Proceeds for Charleston—calls at a gentleman’s
plantation—Adoe—Tannier—wild pigeons—Aster fruticosus—leaves
Charleston, proceeds on his return home to Pennsylvania—crosses Cooper
river, nine miles above the city—Long Bay—reefs of rocks—meets a gang
of Negroes—passes the boundary-house—large savanna—Dionæa muscipula—old
towns—Brunswick—the Clarendon or Cape Fear river—North
West—Livingston’s creek—Wackamaw lake—Carver’s creek—Ashwood—various
vegetable productions—cultivated vegetables—describes the face of the
country on the banks of the North West and adjacent lands—strata of the
earth or soil—rocks—petrifactions—ancient submarine productions
&c.—leaves Ashwood, continues up the river—vast trunks of trees with
their roots, stumps of limbs, with the bark on, turned into very hard
stone—Rock-Fish creek—Cross Creeks—the rise, progress and present state
of Cambelton—curious species of scandent Fern—Deep River—crosses Haw
River—Meherren river in Virginia—Cucurbita lagenaria—curious species of
Prinos—Alexandria—Georgetown—sudden fall of snow—extreme cold—crosses
the river Susquehanna upon the ice—river Schuylkill—arrives at his
father’s house, within three miles of Philadelphia.
PART IV.
CHAPTER I.
Persons, character, and qualifications of the Aborigines—most perfect
human figure—Muscogulge women—women of the Cherokees—arrogance of the
Muscogulges, yet magnanimous and merciful to a vanquished enemy.
CHAPTER II.
Government and civil society—constitution simply natural—the mico or
king presides in the senate—elective—yet mysterious—the next man in
dignity and power is the great war chief—entirely independent of the
mico—his voice in council of the greatest weight concerning military
affairs—the high priest a person of consequence, and maintains great
influence in their constitution and councils of state—these Indians not
idolaters—they adore the Great Spirit, the giver and taker away of the
breath of life, with the most profound homage and purity—anecdote.
CHAPTER III.
Dress, feasts and divertisements—youth of both sexes are fond of
decorations with respect to dress—their ears lacerated—diadem plumes,
&c.—painting their skin—dress of the females different from that of the
men—great horned owlskin stuffed and borne about by the
priests—insignia of wisdom and divination—fond of music, dancing and
routs—different classes of songs—variety of steps in their
dances—sensible and powerful effects—ball play—festival of the Busk.
CHAPTER IV.
Concerning property, agriculture, arts and manufactures—private
property—produce of their agricultural labours—common plantation—king’s
crib—public treasury—women the most ingenious and vigilant in mechanic
arts and manufactures.
CHAPTER V.
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