Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . lie twentieth of August 1670, Col. Catlet of Virginia and my self, withnine English horse, and five Indians on foot, departed from the house of oneRobert Talifer, and that night reached the falls of Rappahanock river, in IndianMa)itapciick. The next day we passed it over where it divides into two branches northand south, keeping the main branch nortli of us. The three and twentieth we found it so shallow, that it onely wet our horseshoofs. The four and twentieth we travelled thorow the Savanae amongst vast herdsof red and fallow deer which stood gazing a
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . lie twentieth of August 1670, Col. Catlet of Virginia and my self, withnine English horse, and five Indians on foot, departed from the house of oneRobert Talifer, and that night reached the falls of Rappahanock river, in IndianMa)itapciick. The next day we passed it over where it divides into two branches northand south, keeping the main branch nortli of us. The three and twentieth we found it so shallow, that it onely wet our horseshoofs. The four and twentieth we travelled thorow the Savanae amongst vast herdsof red and fallow deer which stood gazing at us; and a little after, we cameto the Promontories or spurs of the A crudely drawn map of the region accompanies the narrative, asection of w^hich is reproduced in figure i. This shows the Rappa-hannock and the Rapidan uniting some miles above the falls, and Lederer, John, The discoveries of Begun in March 1669, and ended in September 1670. London, 1672. Reprint 1902. NO. 8 MANAHOAC TRIBES IN VIRGINIA BUSHNKLL. Fig. I.—Section of the Lederer map, 1670. The stream onthe right is the Rappahannock. The broken line indicates thetrail followed by Lederer, from the house of one RobertTalifer. 12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 94 a broken line indicates the route of the party westward. They un-doubtedly followed an Indian trail, which may have been about thecourse of the road that leads west from Falmouth, on the left bankof the Rappahannock at the falls, and crosses the river at RichardsFord, about i mile above the mouth of the Rapidan. The name Manahoac was not used by Lederer when referring tothe native tribes, although it had been employed in the earlier records,but it is believed the names Mahoc and IMahock of his narrative wereother forms of the word that were used at the later day. As so often told in history, sometime before the spring of 1656a large number of Indians, probably an entire village with all of theirpossessions, sett downe n
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