-66 BOLDNESS OF THE SAVAGES. 
off, with the exception of two bunches stained 
red, which hung over their faces. 
Scarcely one of these savages was without 
some remarkable scar: one of them attracted 
our attention by a deep cut across the belly. 
We contrived to ask him how he got this cica- 
trice : and he pointed to his lance, from which it 
may be inferred that they are not unaccustomed 
to war, either with their neighbours or each 
other, and that they are possessed of skilful 
surgeons. No one of this people seemed to ex- — 
ercise any authority over the others. Either no 
chief accompanied the party who came to us, or 
the term does not signify much power or dis- 
tinction. 
The few fruits which they brought with them 
were exchanged for pieces of iron, old barrel- 
hoops, and glass beads; on the latter especially 
they set great value, and even brought forward 
some of their concealed arms, and offered them 
in exchange for this costly decoration. Mean- 
while the crowd of canoes round the ship grew 
more and more numerous, and in the same pro- 
portion the boldness of the savages increased. 
Many of them rose up in their canoes, and made 
