Again, when the Indians, incited by the Spanish at St.Augustine, rose against the English in 1715, and the Yamasi Massacre occurred in South Carolina, it was due to the traders that some of the settlements at least were not wholly unprepared to defend themselves.
The early English trader was generally an intelligent man; sometimes educated, nearly always fearless and resourceful.

He knew the one sure basis on which men of alien blood and far separated stages of moral and intellectual development can meet in understanding--namely, the truth of the spoken word.

He recognized honor as the bond of trade and the warp and woof of human intercourse.

The uncorrupted savage also had his plain interpretation of the true word in the mouths of men, and a name for it.
He called it the "Old Beloved Speech"; and he gave his confidence to the man who spoke this speech even in the close barter for furs.
We shall find it worth while to refer to the map of America as it was in the early days of the colonial fur trade, about the beginning of the eighteenth century.

A narrow strip of loosely strung English settlements stretched from the north border of New England to the Florida line.
North Florida was Spanish territory.