26 Chronicles of the Cape Fear Raver Exploration and Settlement 27 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS SENT FROM BARBA- seb segh the 30th, we proceeded up the main river seven or DOES IN 1663 TO EXPLORE THE COAST. cagues. Saturd ay, the 3 (Lawson’s History of North Carolina, page 113.) y> Ist, ay got up three or four leagues more, and came to a tree that la LV vl é : Y across the river; but because our provl- From Tuesday, the 29th of September, to Friday, the 2d of Slons were almost spent, we proceeded a further but returned ? October, we ranged along the shore from lat. 32 deg. 20 min. to downward before night; and on Monday, the 2d of November ) ? ? lat. 33 deg. 11 min., but could discern no entrance for our ship after we had passed to the northward of 32 deg. 40 min. On Saturday, October 3, a violent storm overtook us, the wind being north and east; which easterly winds and foul weather continued till Monday, the 12th; by reason of which storms and foul weather we were forced to get off to sea, to secure ourselves and ship, and were driven by the rapidity of a strong current to Cape Hatteras, in lat. 35 deg. 30 min. On Monday, the 12th, aforesaid, we ame to an anchor in seven fathoms at Cape Fair Road, and took the meridian altitude of the sun, and were in lat. 33 deg. 43 min., the wind still continuing easterly, and foul weather till Thursday, the 15th; and on Friday, the 16th, the we came aboard our ship. a any, the 3d, we lay still to refresh ourselves. . a nian the 4th, we went five or six leagues up the search a branch that run out of the main river toward northwest. In which we went up five or six leagues; but Wray the land, returned on board that night about mid- ‘ght, and called that place Swampy Branch. oer é November 5th, we stayed aboard. ss 8 riday, the 6th, we went up Green’s Rivex, the mouth of > & against the place at which rode our ship. aan Saturday, the 7th, we proceeded up the said river, some cen or fifteen leagues in all, and found it ended in several wind being N.W., we weighed and sailed up Cape Fair River Small branches. The land, for the most part, being marshy and some four or five leagues, and came to an anchor in six or seven Swamps, we returned towards our ship, and got aboard it in tl | 1e fathom, at which time several Indians came on board and night. brought us great store of fresh ‘fish, large mullets, young bass, Sunday, November the 8th, we lay still; and on Monday the shads, and several other sorts of very good, well-tasted fish. On 3th, went again up th in ri = e ey > Saturday, the 17th, we went down to the Cape to see the English Visions and all shinee ‘ime a tenes me "till cattle, but could not find them, though we rounded the Cape, Thursday noon, the 12th, at is ch we Tet a ios ’ e } ; } i i 5 Fi i : i th ' ' ; ‘ : ; { ; te it ; and having an Indian guide with us. Here we rode till October Where were two islands in the middle of the river; and b 24th. The wind being against us, we could not go up the river son of the crookedness of the river at that place oa oe t é ha with our ship; but went on shore and viewed the land of those across both branches, which stopped the caidas of art rend ? ? quarters. 80 that we could proceed no further with : On Saturday we weighed and sailed up the river some four the river by land some three or sae ae peters ? r leagues or thereabouts. wider and wider. § ae - So we returned, | ° +9 . ee ——? aa ——— aa ti siden Tex a Seas oats PrIery = Se te ree oe sn = Se Seeger Sr a ~ - ——— = . — » —_ —_ I aaa a On Sa SN - . . —_ ' Se tne ee am Sadie = ma = = cad a : : 30K