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English settlers found Carolina natives afraid of Yamasee and Westos

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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In May of the same year [1670] a sloop called The Three Brothers anchored off Edisto Island—"Odistash" as they call it—and two chiefs, named Sheedou and Alush, who had been taken to Barbados by Hilton, came out to them and directed them to Kiawa.
In a letter written to Lord Ashley from this colony by William Owen on September 15, 1670, he says, referring to the coast Indians:
"We haue them in a pound, for to ye Southward they will not goe fearing the Yamases [Yamassee] Spanish Comeraro as ye Indians termes it. ye Westoes are behind them a mortall enemie of theires whom they say are ye man eaters of them they are more afraid then ye little children are of ye Bull beggers in England, to ye Northward they will not goe for their they cry y< is Hiddeskeh, y' is to say sickly, soe y' they reckon themselves safe when they haue vs amongst them, from them there cann be noe danger ap'hended, they haue exprest vs vnexpected kindness for when ye ship went to and dureing her stay att Virginia provision was att the scarcest with us yet they daylie supplied vs y' we were better stored att her return than when she went haueing 25 days provision in stoe beside 3 tunn of eorne more wch they promised to procuer when we pleased to com for it att Seweh.
(Swanton)