The history of Georgia . s second expedition gave to the native dwellers on the banksof the Combahee trinkets and objects of European manufacturewhich were highly prized and widely distributed. It is doubtful whether Verrazzano, with his single caravel,came further south than the palmetto-shaded headlands of Caro-lina. During his blind ramblingsof eight hundred miles throughthe untrodden wilds of Florida in search of some distant territoryabounding in gold, Narvaez may have penetrated the jungles ofSouthern Georgia, but he left no footprints upon the yieldingsoil. In the Relation of Alvar Nune
The history of Georgia . s second expedition gave to the native dwellers on the banksof the Combahee trinkets and objects of European manufacturewhich were highly prized and widely distributed. It is doubtful whether Verrazzano, with his single caravel,came further south than the palmetto-shaded headlands of Caro-lina. During his blind ramblingsof eight hundred miles throughthe untrodden wilds of Florida in search of some distant territoryabounding in gold, Narvaez may have penetrated the jungles ofSouthern Georgia, but he left no footprints upon the yieldingsoil. In the Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabe^a de Vaca, however,we have a recorded memory of the expedition replete with inter-est and archaeological value. In ascending the Savannah River Oglethorpe is said to havecarried with him the Journal of Sir Walter Raleigh. From thelatitude and marks of the place, as well as from the traditions ofthe Indians, he was led to believe that Sir Walter had landedat Yamacraw Blulf and conversed with the natives. In fact, a. IN AND 0 DE SOTO. RIBAULTS DIPRESSIONS OF GEORGIA. 35 grave-mound, distant some half a mile from the spot, was pointedout by the Indians, who informed the founder of the colony ofGeorgia that the king who then talked with Raleigh was thereinterred. It is a pleasant memory and has been repeated for acentury and a half, but its truth we seriously question. It may not be denied, however, that Ribault, acting under theorders of Admiral Coligny, before selecting a location for his fortand pLmting his Huguenot colony near the mouth of Port Royal,traversed the Georgia coast, observed its harbors, and named itsrivers. It was a fayre coast, stretchyng of a great length, cou-ered with an infinite number of high and fayre trees. Thewaters were boy ling and roaring through the multitude of allkind of fish. The inhabitants were all naked and of a goodlystature, miglitic, and as well shapen and proportioned of body asany people in ye world; very gentle, courteous, and of a
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