It was not an easy matter to draw Reefe into conversation; but they at last succeeded in pinning him down to facts, and, without discovering their purpose, he assured them that, to the best of his knowledge, his predecessors had lived in the region of Croatan, until the time of his father, who crossed pamlico Sound and settled near Hunting Quarters.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
She had sailed over nearly every mile of Albemarle and pamlico Sounds, and been fifty miles outside the sand dunes; but that was before Yankee gunboats with their sharp-eyed lookouts were known upon the coast.
"Marcy The Blockade Runner"
Harry Castlemon
Starting from pamlico River below Roanoke Island, a small boat, manned by those who were acquainted with the windings of the different channels, could come up through Middle River and Seven Mile Creek, passing within a few hundred yards of Captain Beardsley's house and Mrs. Gray's, and strike the Roanoke two miles above Plymouth.
"Marcy The Blockade Runner"
Harry Castlemon