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the river : the canoe, with all the four Indians, very 

 soon returned to the ship, and came quite along- 

 side, without expressing any fear or distrust. We 

 distributed some more presents among them, and 

 soon after they left us, and landed on the same side 

 of the river where our people had gone ashore : 

 every man carried in his hand two lances, and a 

 stick, which is used in throwing them, and advanced 

 to the place where Tupia and the rest of our people 

 were sitting. Tupia soon prevailed upon them to 

 lay down their arms, and come forward without 

 them : he then made signs that they should sit 

 down by him, with which they complied, and seem- 

 ed to be under no apprehension or constraint : 

 several more of us then going ashore, they expressed 

 some jealousy lest we should get between them and 

 their arms ; we took care however to show them 

 that we had no such intention, and having joined 

 them, we made them some more presents, as a 

 farther testimony of our good-will, and our desire 

 to obtain theirs. We continued together, with the 

 utmost cordiality, till dinner-time, and then giving 

 them to understand that we were going to eat, we 

 invited them, by signs, to go with us : this however 

 they declined, and as soon as we left them, they 

 went away in their canoe. One of these men was 

 somewhat above the middle age, the other three 

 were young ; they were in general of the common 

 stature, but their limbs were remarkably small ; their 

 skin was of the colour of wood-soot, or what would 

 be called a dark chocolate colour ; their hair was 

 black, but not woolly ; it was short cropped, in some 

 lank, and in others curled. Dampier says, that the 

 people whom he saw on the western coast of this 

 country, wanted two of their fore-teeth, but these 

 had no such defect : some part of their bodies had 

 been painted red, and the upper lip and breast of 

 one of them was painted with streaks of white, which 

 he called Carbanda ; their features were far from 



