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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
I. part i. and II. Early in the spring of the following year, the wan- 540. Mar. 3. derers renewed their march, with an Indian guide, who promised to lead the way to a country, governed, it was said, by a woman, and where gold so abounded, that the art of melting and refining it was understood. He described the process so well, that the credulous Spaniards took heart, and exclaimed, He must have seen it, or the devil has been his teacher! The Indian appears to have pointed towards the Gold Region of North Carolina. Siliman's Journal, XXIII. 8, 9. The adventurers, therefore, eagerly hastened to the north-east; they passed the Alatamaha; they admired the fertile valleys of Georgia, rich, productive, and full of good rivers. They passed a northern tributary of the Alatamaha, and a southern branch of the Ogechee; and, at length, came upon the Ogechee itself, which, in April, flowed with a full April. channel and a strong current. Much of the time, the Spaniards were in wild s