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made a long speech, threw beads into our boat, 

 which is a sign of great love and friendship, and 

 gave us to understand, that when he heard of the af- 

 front which we had received, it caused him to cry, 

 and that he and his men were come to make peace, 

 with us, assuring us, by signs, that they would tie the 

 arms and cut off the head of the fellow who had 

 done us that wrong. And for a farther testimony 

 of their love and good will towards us, they pre- 

 sented us with two very handsome, proper, young 

 Indian women, the tallest that ever we saw in this 

 country, which we supposed to be the king's daugh- 

 ters, or persons of distinction amongst them. Those 

 young women were so ready to come into our boat 

 that one of them crowded in, and would hardly be 

 persuaded to go out again. We presented the 

 king with a hatchet and several beads, and made 

 presents of beads also to the young women, the 

 chief men, and the rest of the Indians, as far as 

 our beads would go. They promised us, in four 

 days, to come on board our ship, and so departed 

 from us. When we left the place, which was soon 

 after, we called it mount bonny, because we 

 had there concluded a firm peace. Proceeding 

 down the river two or three leagues farther, we 

 came to a place where were nine or ten canoes, 

 all together. "We went ashore there and found 

 several Indians, but most of them were the same 

 which had made peace with us before. We staid 

 very little at that place, but went directly down 

 the river, and came to our ship before day. Thurs- 



