Posted by Mike Shaffer on August 18, 2000 at 00:08:51:

In Reply to: Re: WHERE DID BARNABUS FIRST STEP ASHORE? posted by Elyse on August 17, 2000 at 01:38:32:

Yes, Elyse, I believe you are correct. At first reading I had them either at Cape Fear or even further south at the Pee Dee. (I even did a little exploring along the eastern segments of the Pee Dee to try to see what the area may have been like where Barnabus stepped ashore.) The mention of Chesapeake Bay should have put me further north and I missed that reference entirely. I was questioning the location because the Algonkian seemed not to quite reach that far south. The River would have been the Roanoke, I believe, around Cape Hatteras and Pamilco Sound. It could be that the writings in FAIR BLOWS THE WIND with the mention of the Spanish settlements being nearby and speculating that where Tatton stepped ashore so had Barnabus. LL also mentioned in the SACKETT COMPANION that the wreckage common to SACKETT'S LAND, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS AND FAIR BLOWS THE WIND would appear yet again in a novel not named. The wreck has taken on a life of its own, and LL even mentioned that the charred remains of a ship or fort were found at the spot. We even have a bit of controversy surrounding Tatton Chantry and his appearance in TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS some twenty years before Tatton stepped ashore in America and the wreck itself and what it really represented. When our reading expands it may prove wise to read FAIR BLOWS THE WIND after TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS to discuss the Chantry-Sackett connection at the wreck and if the unwritten novel would have placed a Talon into the puzzle of the wreck. LL was a master of weaving a storyline into a storyline within a storyline and he really outdid himself with this hulk of a ship. The Roanoke River would have led the family to settle between the Shawnee and Cherokee when they finally reached TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS. One thing I'm having a problem with is locating information on the Eno. LL tells us they were a part of the Siouans, but I can find no mention of them anywhere. Has anyone else had any luck with the Eno?

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