Posted by Elyse on August 17, 2000 at 01:38:32:

In Reply to: WHERE DID BARNABUS FIRST STEP ASHORE? posted by Mike Shaffer on August 16, 2000 at 21:07:43:

Here's my dos centavos. There are three maps in the front of "To the Far, Blue Mountains," which is the continuing Barnabas story, and one of them shows "Raleigh's Land." Only the very northern edge of South Carolina is shown at the bottom of the map, but granted they might have gone up the Cape Fear River there. I tend to think they were further north, though, since at one point Barnabas mentions they were on a calm, inland sea like the Mediterranean; and since Louis puts in a note saying that the Chesapeake Bay was somewhat further north from where they were, this "sea" seems like it could be Albemarle Sound, just inside Roanoke Island or Pamlico Sound, inside Cape Hateras. Rivers run inland from both those bays. Plus, they eventually settle in the mountains of Tennessee by going west, and Tennessee used to be the western end of North Carolina. The map does show the local Indian tribes, but only at the time of Raleigh, which was a bit later than the migrations you're talking about. One thing sparked my interest, though regarding the mound builders disappearance shortly before European settlers arrived. It's commonly thought* that Athapascans (Navajos, Apaches) migrated to the Four-Corners states only about 50 years before the Spaniards, coming from the northwest. The Uto-Aztecan and Puebloan tribes were both getting squeezed by them and they were at war already when Spaniards came through Arizona in the 1540's. Well, I know it's a long way away, but it does make me wonder about the coincidental timing. Athapascans from the west, Europeans from the east -- mound builders in the middle. *more than just two guys in a bar

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