The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-11
yet loaded with nuts, and horse chest
nut trees equally as dwarfed.

Jos Ao@u0e With NUTS ana morse chest
nut trees equally as dwarfed.
The colts are covered with hair sew
eral i5ches in length, natures protec-
ton against the weather. This is
called colt hair and looks life felt. 1t
falls of in hrge flakes. Most OF the
colts are Of 6 faded brown color, but
when their hair falls of they come
out in their true color, which Is some.
times black. They are termad colts
until they are branded, though they
may be three years old or more before
they are psnned and the brand put on.
The ponies are always known, liz all
paris Of the State, as "banker'' po-
MES. They do not appear to be sold
much outside Of North Carolina, as the
people in other States do not know
anything about them, They cross
we'll with horses. When. taken up
country and fed upon hay, corn and
oats they ell out and darken in color
somewhat. Their instinct is remarka-
BILE. They know by means Of it The
way to get to the mainland or to the
islands with tho minimum amount Of
swimming, and The writer has seen
them wade, great distances without
getting out Of their dep.h, making va
rious changes and turns in direction
to conform to the shoals. Yet they
are fearless swimmers. They paw
holes in the sand ct low-lying places
and thus get drinking water.
Though an inlet only about two
miles in width separates Shackelford's
Banks from Bogus Banks, YET the,po-
MES never go on the latter banks.
Nor do they GROSS Ocracoke Inlet.
The ancestors Of these hardy and
valuable little horses were the Bar
bara horses which Sir Walter sent
over with his ~colonists to Roanoke Is.
land. They have bred and multiplied
and for at least two centuries have
been utilized by the people Of that
section. Sir Walter oolonists, when
the relief from England was SO long
delayed in reaching them, went with
the Indians to the mainland, out must
have left their ponies. Tho Indians
were unused to horses. These In
dams were the H~aterasks, who gave
their name to the dreaded cape. When
Raleigh's c~clonists fret landed there
they found that the Haterasks were
distinguished by their blue eyes, and
that they had q tradition. Ahatstheir
fathers could talk ous Of book"
Hence the inference Chat 81 some
former period a orew:oafs.. White men
bad been cast away thereaboat and
had a%malgamated with the indiana.
These sturdy little ponies are, thels-
fore, q part Of the romance which
hangs about this quaint. part sef. North
Carolina. There r persons who hold
that Raleigh's. colonists irst landed on
Shackelford's banks and later Went to
the isle Of Roanoke, where they built
their fort, because it was a more de-
fensible place, and that they left the,
"little Barbary horses on, these baRke
until better times should come. rag
The blanks" at Hatteras and also
to the southwark were even within
many's memory fer more heavily
wooded than they are now, the over
w%helming sand dunes, or moving
mountains Of sand, having swallowed
up large stretches Of forest. AS the
dunes pass on, moved by the winds,
they leave only etumps of trees. or at
most mere snags, polished to- . re-
variable whiteness.-Fred A. Odds,
in the Sunny; South.