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the colony was aroused.
On the north, the insulated
band of invaders received a check, and vanished into the forests; on the south,
Charles Craven, the governor
of the province, himself promptly led the forces of
Colleton district to the desperate conflict with the confederated warriors on the banks of the Salke-hachie.
The battle was bloody and often renewed.
The an re-
sounded with savage yells; arrows, as well as bullets, were discharged, with fatal aim, from behind trees and coppices.
At last, the savages gave way, and were pursued beyond the present limits of
Carolina.
The
Yamassees retired into
Florida, and at
St. Augustine were welcomed with peals from the bells and a salute of guns, as though allies and friends had returned from victory.
The
Uchees left their old settlements below
Broad River, and
the Appalachians their new cabins near the
Savannah, and retired towards
Flint River.
When
Craven returned to
Charleston, he was greeted with the applause which his alacrity, courage, and conduct, had merited.
The colony had lost about four hundred of its inhabitants.
The war with the Yamassees was followed by a domestic revolution in
Carolina.
Its soil had been defended by its own people, and they resolved, under the sovereignty of the
English monarch, to govern themselves.
Scalping parties of Yamassees, from their places of refuge in
Florida, continued to hover on the frontiers of a territory which the Spaniards still claimed as their own. The proprietaries took no efficient measures for protecting their colony.
Instead of inviting settlers, they monopolized the lands which they had not contributed to defend.
The measures adopted for the payment of the colonial debts were negatived, in part because they imposed a duty of ten
