To their notion they must lie at least half-way across the breadth of America.

Misled by Indian stories, they believed and wrote that five or six days' march from the Falls of the Farre West, even through the thick forest, would bring them to the South Sea.

The Falls of the Farre West, where at Richmond the James goes with a roaring sound around tree-crowned islet--it is strange to think that they once marked our frontier! How that frontier has been pushed westward is a romance indeed.

And still, today, it is but a five or six days' journey to that South Sea sought by those early Virginians.
The only condition for us is that we shall board a train.

Tomorrow, with the airship, the South Sea may come nearer yet! The Indians of this part of the earth were of the great Algonquin family, and the tribes with which the colonists had now to do were drawn, probably by a polity based on blood ties, into a loose confederation within the larger mass.