ich for the King they
named Charles Town. Ten years later this place was abandoned in favor of
the more convenient point of land between the two rivers. Here then was
builded the second and more enduring Charles Town--Charleston, as we
call it now, in South Carolina.

Colonists came fast to this Carolina lying south. Barbados sent many;
England, Scotland, and Ireland contributed a share; there came Huguenots
from France, and a certain number of Germans. In ten years after
the first settling the population numbered twelve hundred, and this
presently doubled and went on to increase. The early times were taken up
with the wrestle with the forest, with the Indians, with Spanish alarms,
with incompetent governors, with the Lords Proprietaries' Fundamental
Constitutions, and with the restrictions which English Navigation Laws
imposed upon English colonies. What grains and vegetables and tobacco
they could grow, what cattle and swine they could breed and export,
preoccupied the minds of these pioneer farmers. There were struggling
for growth a rough agriculture and a hampered trade with Barbados,
Virginia, and New England--trade likewise with the buccaneers who
swarmed in the West Indian waters.

Five hundred good reasons allowed, and had long allowed, free bootery to
flourish in American seas. Gross governmental faults, Navigation
Acts, and a hundred petty and great oppressions, general poverty,
adventurousness, lawlessness, and sympathy of mishandled folk with
lawlessness, all combined to keep Brother of the Coast, Buccaneer, and
Filibuster alive, and their ships upon all seas. Many were no worse than
smugglers; others were robbers with violence; and a few had a dash of
the fiend. All nations had sons in the business. England to the south in
America had just the ragged coast line, with its off-lying islands and
islets, liked by all this gentry, whether smuggler or pirate outright.
Through much of the seventeenth century the settlers on these shores
never violently disapproved of the pirate. He was often a "good fellow."
He brought in needed articles without dues, and had Spanish gold in his
pouch. He was shrugged over and traded with.

He came ashore to Charles Town, and they traded with him there. At one
time Charles Town got the name of "Rogue's Harbor." But that was not
forever, nor indeed, as years are counted, for long. Better and better
emigrants arrived, to add to the good already there. The better type
prevailed,