[Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookPioneers of the Old South CHAPTER II 25/30
In the morning they pressed in parties yet further into the land, but met no Indians--only came to a place where these savages had been roasting oysters.
The next day saw further exploring.
"We marched some three or foure miles further into the Woods where we saw great smoakes of fire.
Wee marched to those smoakes and found that the Savages had beene there burning downe the grasse....We passed through excellent ground full of Flowers of divers kinds and colours, anal as goodly trees as I have seene, as cedar, cipresse and other kindes; going a little further we came into a little plat of ground full of fine and beautifull strawberries, foure times bigger and better than ours in England.
All this march we could neither see Savage nor Towne."* * Percy's "Discourse." The ships now stood into those waters which we call Hampton Roads. Finding a good channel and taking heart therefrom, they named a horn of land Point Comfort.
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