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CHARLESTON
By YATES SNOWDEN
"In Pompeii, the tourist, looking from blank wall to
dusty floor, wonders what there is to see in that little
hall, but a native goes down upon his hands and knees;
with a few brisk passes of his hand the sand is brushed
away, and a Numidian lion glares forth from the tesselated
pavement."—Virginius Dabney's Don Miff.
Forty-five years before the English colonization of Virginia, fifty-two before the Dutch settlement of New York and fifty-eight before the Puritans landed at Massachusetts Bay, Captain Jean Ribaut, of Dieppe, commanding the first Huguenot emigration to North America, on the 1st of May, 1562, entered the beautiful harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina.
In his journal, as translated in one of Hakluyt's black-letter tracts, he describes the country as "full of hauens Riuers and Ilands of such fruitfulness as cannot with tongue be ex-
