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A New Voyage to Carolina By John Lawson
[British Surveyor-General of North Carolina. d. 1711.]

A New VOYAGE to CAROLINA; Containing the Exact Description
and Natural History of that COUNTRY: Together with the Present
State thereof. And A JOURNAL Of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd thro'
several Nations of INDIANS. Giving a particular Account of their
Customs, Manners, &c.
By John Lawson, Gent. Surveyor-General of North Carolina.

[Dedication]

To His Excellency WILLIAM Lord CRAVEN, Palatine; The most
Noble, HENRY Duke of BEAUFORT; The Right Hon-ble JOHN Lord
CARTERET; The Hon-ble MAURICE ASHLEY, Esq; Sir JOHN
COLLETON, Baronet, JOHN DANSON, Esq;
And the rest of the True and Absolute LORDS-PROPRIETORS of the
Province of Carolina in America.

My Lords,
As Debts of Gratitude ought most punctually to be paid, so, where the
Debtor is uncapable of Payment, Acknowledgments ought, at least, to
be made. I cannot, in the least, pretend to retaliate Your Lordships
Favours to me, but must farther intrude on that Goodness of which I
have already had so good Experience, by laying these Sheets at Your
Lordships Feet, where they beg Protection, as having nothing to
recommend them, but Truth; a Gift which every Author may be Master
of, if he will.
I here present Your Lordships with a Description of your own Country,
for the most part, in her Natural Dress, and therefore less vitiated with
Fraud and Luxury. A Country, whose Inhabitants may enjoy a Life of
the greatest Ease and Satisfaction, and pass away their Hours in solid
Contentment.
Those Charms of Liberty and Right, the Darlings of an English Nature,
which Your Lordships grant and maintain, make you appear Noble
Patrons in the Eyes of all Men, and we a happy People in a Foreign
Country; which nothing less than Ingratitude and Baseness can make us
disown.
As Heaven has been liberal in its Gifts, so are Your Lordships
favourable Promoters of whatever may make us an easy People; which,
I hope, Your Lordships will continue to us and our Posterity; and that
we and they may always acknowledge such Favours, by banishing from
among us every Principle which renders Men factious and unjust,
which is the hearty Prayer of,
My Lords, Your Lordships most obliged, most humble, and most
devoted Servant, JOHN LAWSON.

PREFACE.

'Tis a great Misfortune, that most of our Travellers, who go to this vast
Continent in America, are Persons of the meaner Sort, and generally of
a very slender Education; who being hir'd by the Merchants, to trade
amongst the Indians, in which Voyages they often spend several Years,
are yet, at their Return, uncapable of giving any reasonable Account of
what they met withal in those remote Parts; tho' the Country abounds
with Curiosities worthy a nice Observation. In this Point, I think, the

French outstrip us.
First, By their Numerous Clergy, their Missionaries being obedient to
their Superiors in the highest Degree, and that Obedience being one
great Article of their Vow, and strictly observ'd amongst all their
Orders.
Secondly, They always send abroad some of their Gentlemen in
Company of the Missionaries, who, upon their Arrival, are order'd out
into the Wilderness, to make Discoveries, and to acquaint themselves
with the Savages of America; and are oblig'd to keep a strict Journal of
all the Passages they meet withal, in order to present the same not only
to their Governors and Fathers, but likewise to their Friends and
Relations in France; which is industriously spread about that Kingdom,
to their Advantage. For their Monarch being a very good Judge of
Mens Deserts, does not often let Money or Interest make Men of Parts
give Place to others of less Worth. This breeds an Honourable
Emulation amongst them, to outdo one another, even in