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to sound the entrance, while I kept turning up, 

 having the wind right out. At noon, the mouth of 

 the bay bore N. N. W., distant about a mile, and see- 

 ing a smoke on the shore, we directed our glasses to 

 the spot, and soon discovered ten people, who, upon 

 our nearer approach, left their fire, and retired to a 

 little eminence, whence they could conveniently 

 observe our motions. Soon after two canoes, each 

 having two men on board, came to the shore just 

 under the eminence, and the men joined the rest on 

 the top of it. The pinnace, which had been sent 

 a-head to sound, now approached the place, upon 

 which all the Indians retired farther up the hill, ex- 

 cept one, who hid himself among some rocks near 

 the landing-place. As the pinnace proceeded along 

 the shore, most of the people took the same route, 

 and kept abreast of her at a distance. When she 

 came back, the master told us, that in a cove a little 

 within the harbour, some of them had come down to 

 the beach, and invited him to land by many signs and 

 words, of which he knew not the meaning ; but that 

 all of them were armed with long pikes, and a 

 wooden weapon shaped somewhat like a cimeter. 

 The Indians who had not followed the boat, seeing 

 the ship approach, used many threatening gestures, 

 and brandished their weapons ; particularly two, 

 who made a very singular appearance, for their 

 faces seemed to have been dusted with a white 

 powder, and their bodies painted with broad streaks 

 of the same colour, which passing obliquely over 

 their breasts and backs, looked not unlike the cross- 

 belts worn by our soldiers ; the same kind of streaks 

 were also drawn round their legs and thighs, like 

 broad garters. Each of these men held in his hand 

 the weapon that had been described to us as like a 

 cimeter, which appeared to be about two feet and a 

 half long; and they seemed to talk to each other with 

 great earnestness. 



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