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turned, taking a view of the land on both sides, and 

 then judged ourselves to be from our ship some 18 

 leagues "W. and by N. One league below this 

 place came four Indians in a canoe to us, and sold 

 us several baskets of acorns, which we satisfied 

 them for, and so left them ; but one of them fol- 

 lowed us on the shore some two or three miles, till 

 he came on the top of a high bank facing on the 

 river ; and as we rowed underneath it, the fellow 

 shot an arrow at us which veiy narrowly missed 

 one of our men and stuck in the upper edge of 

 the boat, but broke in pieces leaving the head be- 

 hind. Hereupon we presently made to the shore 

 and went all up the bank, (except four to guide 

 the boat) to look for the Indian, but could not find 

 him. At last we heard some sing, further in the 

 woods, which we looked upon as a challenge to 

 us to come and fight them. "We went towards 

 them with all speed ; but before we came in sight 

 of them, heard two guns go off from our boat ; 

 whereupon we retreated as fast as we could to se- 

 cure our boat and men : when we came to them 

 we found all well, and demanded the reason of 

 their firing the guns. They told us that an Indian 

 came creeping along the bank, as they supposed, 

 to shoot at them ; and therefore they shot at 

 him at a great distance, with small shot, but 

 thought they did him no hurt, for they saw him 

 run away. Presently after our return to the boat, 

 and while we were thus talking, came two Indians 

 to us with their bows and arrows, crying bony, 



