people, for they were all gone. Then we turned again to the place where
we landed, and there we dug for water.

While we were at work there came nine or ten of the natives to a small
hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening us,
and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the
rest followed at a distance. I went out to meet him, and came within
fifty yards of him, making to him all the signs of peace and friendship I
could, but then he ran away, neither would they any of them stay for us
to come nigh them, for we tried two or three times. At last I took two
men with me, and went in the afternoon along by the sea-side, purposely
to catch one of them, if I could, of whom I might learn where they got
their fresh water. There were ten or twelve of the natives a little way
off, who, seeing us three going away from the rest of our men, followed
us at a distance. I thought they would follow us, but there being for
awhile a sand-bank between us and them, that they could not then see us,
we made a halt, and hid ourselves in a bending of the sand-bank. They
knew we must be thereabouts, and being three or four times our numbers,
thought to seize us. So they dispersed themselves, some going to the sea-
shore, and others beating about the sand-hills. We knew by what
rencounter we had had with them in the morning that we could easily out-
run them, so a nimble young man that was with me, seeing some of them
near, ran towards them; and they for some time ran away before him, but
he soon overtaking them, they faced about and fought him. He had a
cutlass and they had wooden lances, with which, being many of them, they
were too hard for him. When he first ran towards them I chased two more
that were by the shore; but fearing how it might be with my young man, I
turned back quickly and went to the top of a sand-hill, whence I saw him
near me, closely engaged with them. Upon their seeing me, one of them
threw a lance at me, that narrowly missed me. I discharged my gun to