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turkeys e'er we got up to him.The prospect he describes is evidently the
one seen from the Santee Hills; the old Indian path passed over a point of
one of these at Captain Baker's plantationfrom which the prospect
extends more than twenty miles; and the Alpwhich was so conspicuous
must have been Cook's Mountopposite Stateburgh. -- Our traveller
afterwards visited the Congareethe Watereeand Waxhaw Indiansin
South Carolinaand divers tribes in North Carolinaas far as Roanoke; and
it is melancholy to thinkthat all of these appear to be now extinct. They
treated him with their best; such as bear meat and oilvenisonturkeys
maizecow peaschinquepinshickory nuts and acorns. The Kings and
Queens of the different tribes always took charge of him as their guest. –
Life of Marion.
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Chapter I.
FRANCIS MARION was born at Winyaw* near GeorgetownSouth
Carolinain the year 1732; -- memorable for giving birth to many
distinguished American patriots. Marion was of French extraction; his
grandfatherGabrielleft France soon after the revocation of the edict of
Nantzin 1685on account of his being a protestantand retired from
persecution to this new worldthen a wilderness; no do [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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