Arriving there, and being joined hy other vessels, he asccndcd the river to Oyster Point, where he and others settled. Some eight months afterwards food rau short, and the colonists were obliged to abandon their settlement. They retreated into the then unexplored tcn'itory fringing the sea-coast, and came into the country of the Tuscarora Indians, then at war with the English. They were seized and condemned to death, whereupon 5It. Jones exclaimed in Welsh, "Have I escaped so many dangers, and must now be knocked on the head like dog ?" On this an Indi;m came to him and told him in Welsh that he should not be put to death. The Indian, who was of the "Doeg" tribe, arranged for the ransom and release of all the prisoners. Afterwards. says Jones, he was taken about with the Indians, was well-treated, and in revenge reguhu'ly preached to them three times a week. They always consulted him ahout matters of importance: the locality given is near the Pantigo river.

There is no evidence for this statement except the writer's assertion. The l)oegs, so far as is known, never dwelt where Mr. Jones pretends to have fonnd them; on early maps they are placed much more to tile north. The tribes near the Pamlico- which is probably the original of l'antigo--were, besides the Tuscaroras, the Algonquins and Iroquois, whose language is well known, and had nothing Welsh about it. The only sptrk of confirmation is when George Fox records in his journal that the relations between the English and the Tuscaroras were unfriendly in D;72. a Au Euglish colony in close proximity to the supposed Welsh Indians knew nothing of them.

About the same time or a little later, a XVclshlnan called Stedman landed from a l)utch vessel on the coast of America, and fimnd that he understood the Indians' la. ngut;ge. They tohl him that they came from Gwynedd, or hV;des, in Great Britain. s For

M,Drgan .Iones was ;11! ()Xll'll graduate. l(c does not al,pear t have Inentioned his a, lvenlures , any, me till 11;$1;. The date of his j.urney is given difii. rcntly, as Ilili0, in another version. N, expedition, so fir as can I)e discovere, I, was sent I'ar.lina in either lil;) or 11;l;D, though there were expe, litiolS in D;6:I, 1;I;6, and It was at he latter date that Oyster Point, now Charleston, was settled. With this expoliin Virginia had lnthillg whatever to ,lo; Intercover, the'e was I1 TasoH why he ]t)llg journey ol' which ,Iones speaks should ]tare Iell :ttelnpled, mg there was a settlement close at hah,l, at 'ape Fear. M:nloc, 12, 12. a J,mrnal, i. 17:k 174. Qu-ted in M:tdoc, 1:o.

a 'l'rydain I.'awr.' l'nlbrtunately the name ";reat Britain" 'ame into use hmg aler lhe mi:.']-ati-; ,,1' M;t,l,c. M:td-