96 A SYNOPSIS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. [iNTROD. the Keyauwees, three small tribes amounting together to seven hundred and tilty souls, which had but lately been driven away from the west into that quarter. He was shown, near the Sapona town, the graves of seven Indians " lately killed by the Sinnegars or Jennitos," (Scnccas or Oncidas,) and the three tribes had determined to unite in one town for their better se- curity.* East of them and west of the Tusearcras, he mentions the Sissipahaus on the waters of Cape Fear River,and the Enoes on a branch of the Neuse. With the exception of the Ca- lawbas, we have not the least knowledge of the language of any of those tribes. Lawson has also given an enumeration of the tribes inhabit- ing the eastern part of North Carolina, extending westwardly but a short distance beyond Neuse River. He estimates the warriors of the Iroquois tribes at one thousand three hundred, of the Lenape at less than one hundred, of the Woccons at one hundred and twenty, of all the other tribes, including the Machapunga (or Maramiskeetf), the Bear River, Connamox, and Neuse, at only one hundred and twenty. This last num- ber appears to be underrated ; and neither the Enoes nor the Coramines are included. But it shows the insignificance of the small tribes which have disappeared. The records of North Carolina would probably throw some light on that subject. We learn from Williamson that the Saponas and the Chowans, about the year 1720, obtained leave to join the Tuscaroras. The Wyanokes, whom he mentions as having lived on the river Nottoway and formerly emigrated from the Susquehanna, were probably a tribe connected with the Nottoways and Chowans. To the names already mentioned may be added the upper and lower Sawara towns, laid down, south of the Dan River, in all the early maps of North Caroli- na. In Jeffrey's map, a tribe called Saluda, is also laid down, south of that river, near the present site of Columbia in South Carolina, with a note, that it had removed to Conestogo in Pennsylvania. Some detached observations of Lawson may deserve notice. Buffaloes (bisons) were found in his time on the hilly country on the head waters of Cape Fear River ; and it is not known that they were ever seen north of that place, east of the Alle-
- Lawson's New Voyage to Carolina, pp. 44 - 47,
f Williamson.
