This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...prior to 1586, Burgoignon states that "the Spaniards, entring 50. leagues up Saint Helena, found Indians wearing golde rings at their nostrels and eares. They found also Oxen, but lesse than ours." The St. Helena here mentioned was in the present State of South Carolina, and must have been either the Combahee or the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...prior to 1586, Burgoignon states that "the Spaniards, entring 50. leagues up Saint Helena, found Indians wearing golde rings at their nostrels and eares. They found also Oxen, but lesse than ours." The St. Helena here mentioned was in the present State of South Carolina, and must have been either the Combahee or the Edisto River, though most probably the latter, the name St. Helena being still retained for the bay at the mouths of these rivers. It hence seems very probable that the locality referred to was the Abbeville district of South Carolina, where buffaloes at that time doubtless existed. Governor Oglethorpe, in his "New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South Carolina and Georgia," published in 1733, makes the following single reference to the buffalo: "The wild beasts are deer, elks, bears, wolves, buffaloes, wild boars, and abundance of hares and rabbits: they have also a catamountain, or small leopard; but this is not the dangerous species of the East Indies." t Francis Moore, writing in 1744, referring to the absence of the buffalo from St. Simon's Island, adds that "there are large herds there upon the Main."t Governor Glen, in his " Description of Carolina," published in 1761, enumerates Buffaloes" in his list of the 'Wild Beasts, etc., of the Forest." Drayton, writing in 1802, also enumerates the buffalo as one of the animals formerly existing in South Carolina. He says, "The buffalo and cat-a-mount are entirely exterminated on the eastern side of our mountains." While the former occurrence of the buffalo in the u upper parts" of the Carolinas "near the mountains" is a well-established fact of history, its absence at the same time from the low co...
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