Fourteen miles West-Southwest of the _Oenocks_, dwell the _Shackory_-Indians, upon a rich Soyl, and yet abounding in Antimony, of which they shewed me considerable quantities. Finding them agree with the _Oenocks_ in Customs and Manners, I made no stay here, but passing thorow their Town, I travelled till the nineteenth of _June_; and then after a two days troublesome Journey thorow Thickets and Marish grounds, I arrived at _Watary_ above fourty miles distant, and bearing West-Southwest to _Shakor_. This Nation differs in Government from all the other Indians of these parts: for they are Slaves, rather then Subjects to their King. Their present Monarch is a grave man, and courteous to strangers: yet I could not without horrour behold his barbarous Superstition, in hiring three youths, and sending them forth to kill as many young women of their Enemies as they could light on, to serve his son, then newly dead, in the other world, as he vainly fancyed. These youths during my stay returned with skins torn off the heads and faces of three young girls, which they presented to his Majestie, and were by him gratefully received.
I departed from _Watary_ the one and twentieth of _June_, and keeping a West-course for near thirty miles, I came to _Sara_: here I found the ways more level and easie. _Sara_ is not far distant from the Mountains, which here lose their height, and change their course and name: for they run due West, and receive from the Spaniards the name of _Suala_. From these Mountains or Hills the Indians draw great quantities of _Cinabar_, with which beaten to powder they colour their faces: this Mineral is of a deeper Purple then _Vermilion_, and is the same which is in so much esteem amongst Physitians, being the first element of Quicksilver.
I did likewise, to my no small admiration, find hard cakes of white Salt amongst them; but whether they were made of Sea-water, or taken out of Salt-pits, I know not: but am apt to believe the later, because the Sea is so remote from them. Many other rich Commodities and Minerals there are undoubtedly in these parts, which if possessed by an ingenious and industrious people, would be improved to vast advantages by Trade. But having tied my self up to things onely that I have seen in my Travels, I will deliver no Conjectures.