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298 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.the inhabitants of that part of Carolina thatadhered to Mr. Hyde." ^ But a charge of suchfrightful character needs strong evidence to makeit credible, and in this case there is little buthearsay and the vague beliefs of men hostile toCarey and Porter, in a season of fierce politicalexcitement. No such infernal wickedness isneeded to account for the Indian outbreak. Theordinary incidents connected with the advance ofthe white man's frontier into the red man's countryare quite sufficient to explain it.But, withoutfeeling it necessary to accuse Carey and Porter ofhaving urged the Indians to murder their fellowcountrymen,we must still admit that the civildiscord into which they had plunged the colonyhad so weakened it as to offer the watchful redmen an excellent opportimity.The Indians of North Carolina at the timewhich we are treating belonged to three ethnicCarolina families. Along the coast, northwardAlgonquintribes.^YO'Oi Capc Lookout to the VirginiaYxhq., the Corees, Pamlicos, Mattamuskeets,Pasquotanks, and Chowanocs all belongedto the Algonquin family, and they could musterin all about 400 warriors. The coast territoryoccupied by thesetribes was continuous with that^ Spotswood's Official Letters (Va. Hist. Soc. Coll.), Richmond,1882, i. 106. Several other passages in Spotswood's letters ofthe summer and autumn of 1711 express a similar belief. Theopinion of Spotswood is adopted in Hawks, History of NorthCarolina, ii. 522-583, who is followed by Moore, History of NorthCarolina, i. 35. I am glad to find that my opinion of the inadequacyof the evidence is shared by so great an authority as ProfessorRivers, in Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist. v. 298.