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BNL.708.005
24-31 May 1708:22 (215)
By letters from Dorchester in South-Carolina of April 7th
last we are acquainted, that some of their Indian traders
met with some Indians who informed them that they being
hunting about 6 or 700 miles from Dorchester towards the
French settlement at Mobile, which is within the Charter of
Carolina upon the great river call'd Coosaw, but by the
Spaniards, [Spiriro] [Safflo], there fell a shower of blood,
in which they walk'd up to the ankles. The 14th of
September last a certain gentleman heard an unusual strange
noise, others heard distinctly 3 guns, and then a drum;
others at Edistow judged them to be great guns and then a
drum, a light was seen by some, and the guns and drum were
so plain, that some shot off guns to continue the alarm,
thinking it to be a real one; about a month before there was
heard a volley of small arms, and some time before that a
nation of Indians call'd the Yamesees that live to the
Southward, who are utter enemies to the Spaniards were
alarmed by the like noises, so that they ran to their arms;
since these things there has been a design to attack Mobile
(commonly called Mowella) and our agent that manages the
Indian trade has sent word that 1400 Indians offer their
service, but it is not yet put in execution.
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