FERNANDO ALARCHON a.d. 



1540. 

 all this none of them stirred to take any of them, but 

 rather flocked together, and beg-anne to make a P:reat 

 murmuring among themselves : and suddenly one came 

 out from among them with a staife wherein certayne 

 shelles were set, and entred into the water to give them 

 unto mee, and I tooke them, and made signes unto him 

 that hee should come neere me, which when he had 

 done, I imbraced him, and gave him in recompence 

 certaine beades and other things, and he returning with 

 them unto his fellowes, began to looke upon them, and 

 to parley together, and within a while after many of 

 them came toward me, to whom I made signes to lay 

 downe their banners, and to leave their weapons : which 

 they did incontinently, then I made signes that they 

 should lay them altogether, and should goe aside from 

 them, which likewise they did : and they caused those 

 Indians which newly came thither to leave them, and 

 to lay them together with the rest. After this I called 

 them unto me, and to all them which came I gave 

 some smal trifle, using them gently, and by this time 

 they were so many that came thronging about mee, 

 that I thought I could not stay any longer in safety 

 among them, and I made signes unto them that they 

 should withdraw themselves, and that they should stand 

 al upon the side of an hill which was there betweene a 

 plaine & the river, and that they should not presse to 

 me above ten at a time. And immediatly the most 

 ancient among them called unto them with a loud voyce, 

 willing them to do so : and some ten or twelve of them 

 came where I was : whereupon seeing my selfe in some 

 securitie, I determined to goe on land the more to put 

 them out of feare : and for my more securitie, I made 

 signes unto them, to sit downe on the ground which they 

 did : but when they saw that ten or twelve of my com- 

 panions came a shore after me, they began to be angry, 

 and I made signes unto them that we would be friends, 

 and that they should not feare, & herewithal they were 

 pacified, and sate down as they did before, and I went 



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