John Lawson

“The Small-Pox and Rum have made such a Destruction amongst them, that, for ought I know, there is not the tenth Indian living within two hundred Miles of all our Settlements.”

“As for the reports of other Discoverers, I shall not charge my Pen with, having survey'd and laid out the chiefest part of the Country, not by Hear-say, but by my own painful Experience.”

“They are a very cleanly People, and will not eat anything that is foul or slovenly.”

“The women are the most industrious sex in that place, and the men are for the most part of a very lazy, idle humour.”

“Their food is all served up in wooden dishes, which are very neat and clean.”

“Nor do I believe that any Man can give a better Account thereof than my self, considering the fatigue and Danger I have undergone to make my Discovery perfect.”

“We travelled, by our Computation, five hundred Miles in this five Weeks Travel, coming in a direct Line but little more than one hundred and fifty Miles.”