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beads, and continued talking with them a little while ; 

 but evening approching the aire grew somewhat cold. 

 The Indians returned on shore to their lodgings, and 

 the General and we to our ship. The next day being 

 Wednesday in the morning, the General commanded 

 certaine of us to take the bote and goe ashore, to see 

 if we could find any brooke or well of fresh water in 

 the houses of the Indians, because he thought it un- 

 possible for them to dwell there without any water 

 to drinke. The father frier Raimund likewise went 

 out in our company, because the day before seeing 

 the Indians came to the sterne of the shippe and par- 

 lying with us, he thought he might have spoken a little 

 with them, with the like familiarity. In like sort many 

 mariners and souldiers went out in the boat of the 

 Trinity, and going altogether with their weapons toward 

 the shore, somewhat above the lodgings of the Indians, 

 very early in the morning they watched the boats, and 

 perceived that wee would come on land, whereupon they 

 sent away their women & children with certaine of them, 

 who caried their goods up into certaine exceeding steepe 

 mountaines and hilles, and 5 or 6 of them came toward 

 us, which were excellently well made, and of a good 

 stature. Two of them had bowes and arrowes, and other 

 two 2 bastonadoes much thicker then the wrist of a mans 

 hand, and other two with 2 long staves like javelins with 

 very sharpe points, and approched very neere us being 

 nowe come on shore. And beginning by signes very 

 fiercely to brave us, they came so neere us, that almost 

 they strooke with one of those staves one of our souldiers 

 called Garcia a man of good parentage, but the General 

 commanded him to withdraw himselfe, and not to hurt 

 any of them. In the meane season the General and frier 

 Raimund stept foorth, the frier lapping a garment about 

 his arme, because they had taken up stones in their hands, 

 fearing that they would do them some mischiefs. Then 

 began both of them to speake unto them by signes & 

 words, to be quiet, signifying, that they ment them no 



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