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and one of them assoone as hee sawe the boat beganne to 

 leape forward and backeward with so great nimblenesse, 

 that doubtlesse he seemed to all of us a man of great 

 agilitie, and we tooke no small pleasure while we beheld 

 him fetching those gambols : but the rest of the Indians 

 which stood at the mouth of the fresh water ranne 

 toward him, and cryed unto him, forbidding him to use 

 those gestures, because we were come thither in peaceable 

 sort, and by this meanes he came with the rest to the 

 watering place, where by little and little in this manner 

 there assembled above a hundred of them all in order, 

 with certaine staves with cordes to fling them, and with 

 their bowes and arrowes, and they were all painted. In 

 the meane while our Chichimeco-interpreter borne in the 

 He of California, was come unto us, and the Captaine 

 againe commanded a mariner to strippe himselfe, and to 

 swimme and laye upon the said rocke certaine belles, 

 and more beades, and when he had layd them there, the 

 Indians made signes that he should goe away ; and so 

 they came thither and tooke them, and our men drew 

 neere with their boat. The Captaine commanded the 

 Indian our Chichimeco to speake unto them, but they 

 could not understand him, so that we assuredly beleeve, 

 that they understand not the language of the He of 

 California. This day being Tuesday untill night the 

 Indians stayed at this watering place, taking some of our 

 beades, and giving unto us their feathers and other 

 things, and when it was very late they departed. The 

 morrow following being Wednesday very early the 

 Captaine commanded that our buttes should be made 

 ready, that before breake of day, and before the Indians 

 should take the hill, which stood over the watering place, 

 we might be landed in good order : which was put in 

 execution : for we went on shore with as many as could 

 goe, saving those that had charge to take in the water, 

 and such as were to stay on ship-boord, which in all were 

 about fourteene or fifteene persons, in as good order as 

 we could devise : for we were foure crossebowes, two 



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