- == They ate bufallo and deer and they drunk fresh water from the river ==
the cape fear Indians primary diet included deer, but they ate mostly fish and coastal shellfish, oysters and clams. corn was not very important to thies people, they fished the rivers and ocean. the Indian Trail Tree in Southport NC is thought to be a marker to good fishing, it was bent over as a sapling and is shaped likean M to this day. they used dogout canoes made of pine or cypress, generaly they were 20 to21 feet long and rather narrow.