FRAlSrCIS DE ULLOA ad. 



1539- 

 the Admirall that he should parley with them. And the 

 Captaine came unto the boy, and laid certaine things 

 upon it for exchange, & made signes unto the Savages 

 to come and take them ; and an Indian made signes unto 

 our men with his hands, his armes, and head, that they 

 understood them not, but signified that they should go 

 aside. Whereupon the Captaine departed a smal distance 

 from that place with his boat. And they made signes 

 againe that he should get him further ; whereupon we 

 departing a great way off, the saide Indians leapt into 

 the water, came unto the boy, and tooke those beades, 

 and returned backe againe to land, and then came unto 

 the other three, and all of them viewing our things, they 

 gave a bowe and certaine arrowes to an Indian, and sent 

 him away, running with all haste on the shore, and made 

 signes unto us that they had sent word unto their lord 

 what things we had given them, and that he would come 

 thither. Within a while after the said Indian returned, 

 running as he did before, and beganne to make signes 

 unto us, that his Lord was comming. And while we 

 stayed here, we saw on the shore ten or twelve Indians 

 assemble themselves, which came unto the other Indians, 

 and by and by we saw another company of 12 or 15 more 

 appeare, who assembled themselves all together. And 

 againe they began to make signes unto us, to come foorth- 

 with to our boates, and shewed us many Oysters of pearles 

 on the top of certaine canes, making signes that they would 

 give them us. When we beheld this, the Captaine com- 

 manded us to make readie our boate, and went aboord 

 it with the said mariners, and rowed to a certaine stone 

 in forme of a rocke, which lay in the sea neere unto the 

 shore. And hither came first 2 or 3 Indians and layd 

 downe one of those Oysters, and a garland made of 

 Parats feathers, or sparrowes feathers painted red ; they 

 layd downe also certaine plumes of white feathers, and 

 others of blew colour. In the meane while we sawe 

 continually Indians assemble to the shore by tenne and 

 tenne, and so by little and little they came in squadrons ; 



245 



