. Bulletin. Ethnology. 214 CATAWBA [I Indian allies about the year 1660, does not agree in any of its main points with the known facts of history, and, if genu- ine at all, refers rather to some local in- cident than to a tril)al movement. It is well known that the Catawba were in a chronic state of warfare with the northern tribes, whose raiding parties they some- times followed, even across the Ohio. The first notice of the Catawba seems to be that of Vandera in 1579, who calls. BENJAMIN P. HARRIS, A CATAWBA them Issa in his narrative of Pardo's expedition. Nearly a century later, in 1670, t
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 214 CATAWBA [I Indian allies about the year 1660, does not agree in any of its main points with the known facts of history, and, if genu- ine at all, refers rather to some local in- cident than to a tril)al movement. It is well known that the Catawba were in a chronic state of warfare with the northern tribes, whose raiding parties they some- times followed, even across the Ohio. The first notice of the Catawba seems to be that of Vandera in 1579, who calls. BENJAMIN P. HARRIS, A CATAWBA them Issa in his narrative of Pardo's expedition. Nearly a century later, in 1670, they are mentioned as Ushery by Lederer, who claims to have visited them, but this is doubtful. Lawson, who passed through their ter- ritory in 1701, speaks of them as a "pow- erful nation" and states that their vil- lages were very thick. He calls the two divisions, which were living a short dis- tance apart, by different names, one the Kadapau an<l the other the Esaw, un- aware of the fact that the two were syno- nyms. From all accounts they were for- merly the most populous and most im- portant tribe in the Carolinas, excepting the Cherokee. Virginia traders were already among them at the time of Lawson's visit. Adair, 75 years later, says that one of the ancient cleared fields of the tribe extended 7 m., besides which they had several smaller village sites. In 1728 they still had 6 villages, all on Ca- tawba r., within a stretch of 20 m., the most N. being named Nauvasa. Their principal village was formerly on the w. side of the river, in what is now York CO., S. C, opposite the mouth of Sugar cr. The known history of the tribe till about 1760 is chiefly a record of petty warfare between themselves and the Iro- quois and other northern tribes, through- out which the colonial government tried to induce the Indians to stop killing one another and go to killing the French. With the single exception of their alli- ance with the hostile Yamasi, in 1715, they were uni
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