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The Chowan Herald seenSHT History Os The Albemarle Sound Reviewed RyDmNMtek (A paper read at “O**- fweuce oa fee Afeaurk Sound - Trend* and Maaafamaat Needs**, Coßepe of fee Afeaairie .EUnbefeCtty, N. C, March 5, mt) Any discussion at Albemarle Sound history should befia wife mention of the foOowtaf: Weapemeoc - : The Sea of Rawaocke - Caroline Rhor. Tho Bay of River. For thoao, in Albemarle Sound was known to fee epriy ex plorers, settlers, and neap Weopemeoc was fee name applied by dm native In dians to the area above fee sound comprising the present counties of Currituck, Caaedoa, : and Chowan whoa Sir Walter Raleicb’s colonists, under Ralph Lane, first explored the sound and its tributaries be the spring of : IMS. Lane was fee one who - U Ik* * U r ,|f IWml 10 uir SOUIjO lvScll as "the broad miinl of "Weopomiok,” and oa a sketch map there Is s notation in tong -hand that this sound of "Weopomfok” contained “freshe water wife peel store of ftshe.” There is irony in the fact that Lone end his fellow explorers almost starved to death as they rode out a violent storm in their open boats at at the hand of the sound with this "grant store of fishe" swimming about beneath them. It happened -this way: - The colonists sot ouffTom their Roonoko Island base in * three small boats to explore the sound and its tributaries, visiting Indian villages along fee rivers feedtog into the sound from The north, and then moving . NOTICE All (lowtn and containers will be removed from Boavor Hill Cemetery and Vine Oak Cemetery on March 29, 1982. Anyone having flowers or containers they wish to keep must remove them prior to this date. Your cooperation will bo greatly appreciated. Samuel W. 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There, on the west bank they came to fee Indian town of Chawanooc, city - sized when compared with the otners mey dm visuea, tor nccordtog to Lane it was “able toput TOO fighting men into the fiekte.” i.m» took captive the Chewenoac chieftan, a man he deacribed as “impotent in his Bins... but otherwise for a savage, a vary grave and who man.*’ For two days Lane questioned this wise old Indian about fee surrounding territories, and what he learned was enough to set him off immedlntriy hi the direction of a fabled land of mountains and gold said to bo located far up the River Morotico, today's Roanoke River. It was an ill - fated ex pedition from start to finish. The spring thaw had begun and the task of propelling the boats by pnddte and oar was laborious and time - con suming. Worse still, the lix&ans residing along fee river, obviously waned of fee approach of these foreign invaders, had abandoned their-villages and stripped them clean of aB edible conufhodtties. But even when Lane’s supplies were exhausted be and his men pressed on yet another day, having resolved feat if necessary they could kill two large bull mastiffs, which were used as watch dogs, and prepare a "pottage" o t sassafras leaves and fresh dog meat. They reasoned that this would give them sustenance tor two additional days, which Lane figured “would bring them downe fee current to the mouth of the river, and to the entrie of fee sound” where be hoped to be able to take fish from fee weirs of fee Indians of Weapemeoc. . So fee indomitable Elizabethans pressed on against the onrushing current of fee flooded Roanoke River until, when their final meagre reserve of chrn had been eaten, emaciated and weakened in both body and resolve, they were suddenly attacked by Imßans. After a brief en counter fee explorers escaped without and serious injuries. It was almost dark by then, so they established a sheltered and protected campsite on shore in preparation for a rapid descent of the river st first light the following day. The dogs, companions and guardians, were called on for double service there oh the bank far up the Roanoke - guard duty that night, and breakfast the following morning, their hacked up remains providing sustenance and flavor to the bland pottage of sassafras leaves. The English explorers reached the sound two days later, and stew of dog meat and sassafras long since consumed. By then, however, “fee winde blew so strongly, and fee billow so great,’’that Lane said “there was no possiblity of passage without sinking our boats.** It was Easter Eve, and Lane, suddenly turned humorists, noted that his men "fasted very trulie.” The next morning the wind died down and they entered fee broad sound, reaching the Indian village of Chirinum near Little River that afternoon, where, as hoped for, they were able to catch some fish and stave off starvation. If this account of Lane’s Albemarle Sound expedition seems more detailed than necessary you should un derstand feat it has been done deliberately. For in order to put fee history of the sound in propor per spective it is essential to understand feat for nearly four centuries since then, year after year, day in and day out, innumerable men and women - black, white and Indian - have had their own encounters wife the sound. And its history is nothing more than the aggregate of all of those personal experiences since the beginning of recorded time. Now, to a more general historical perspective. The Algonkian Indians, the natives of what is now north - eastern North Carolina, lived both by and on the sound - and the rivers, creeks, runs, and bays that flow into it. Almost invariably their villages were located close to the water. There they could keep their canoes, hollowed out of giant trees, in the absence of iron and tools using fire as then chisel, and sharp shells as their asze. Nearby they could set their weirs or nets, for fee most part consisting of labyrinhs of poles and reeds, anchored to the sandy bottom and set out in in tricate patterns to entrap fee fish as they migrated - fee forerunners of latter - day pound nets and set nets. The sound was important in other ways. It was political boundary, separating fee Roanoacs on the south from the Weapemeocs and Chawanoacs on the north. 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Both were in constant flux, new shoals forming and old ones Continued On Rag* 8-B Letter To The Editor: Expanding Terms Letter to fee Editor: A proposed constitutional amendment will be on the ballot in fee first primary 1982 which reads as follows: “Constitutional amendment making the terms of members of the General Assembly four years, beginning with members elected in 1982.” I believe to vote for a four year term would be a serious mistake and it will work against the best in terests of the people. North Carolina has a history of good, honest government. Our budget is balanced, our taxes moderate, and our credit ratings are the highest. We have in the past depended on citizens who take time from their businesses and professions to come to Raleigh to attend the state’s business. They have been careful not to cut their ties with their own communities. Two- year terms for North Carolina legislators have worked well since 1835. No good reason has been offered to justify a change. We have heard no public outcry for such a change; this is truly an incumbent’s bill. A four - year term is an idea whose time has not come. The proposed con stitutional amendment is bad legislation. The amendment will be on the ballot in the 1982 primary off - year election. Those who file for state legislative seats will not know whether they are running for a two -year or a four - year term. If the amendment is approved, the legislators who are elected in November, 1982 will serve four years. This means that North Carolina will be the only state in the nation whose members of both House and Senate would serve four - year terms and be elected at a time dif ferent from that of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Council of State. Since North Carolina is the only state whose governor does not have the veto power, the primary check against any legislative excess is the two - year term. We need to keep the legislature on a short leash, and that short leash is a two- year term. North Carolina’s legislative body is considered to be the most powerful in the nation. All the more reason why the legislators must return often to the people to communicate, to listen, and to understand fee changes in the economic and political conditions in their com munities. Tfee two- year term successfully ac complishes this requirement A four - year term would lead to less accountability and responsiveness and would lead to a full - time legislature. As citizens we must be watchful that our legislature does not turn into a so - called professional body wife lengthy annual sessions. Is there any proof that longer and more frequent sessions mean better laws and wiser public policy? The opposite is Continued On Pag* 4-8
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