September 5th 1671 On the fourth day 'they reached the Saponi villages, one of which Leader had visited the year before. They picked up a Saponi guide to show them to the Totero village by "a nearer way than usual," They sent back Mr. Thomas Wood's worn out horse by a **Portuguese servant of General Wood's whom they had found in the village" A Journey from Virginia to beyond the Appalachian Mountains, September, 1671.

From Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800