264 vdYAOi In search 



plantains, and other different fruits ; at lad 

 fome of the favages had determined to com toff 

 to them, and bring them the produd:ions 61 

 their ifland, leaping into the water and fwim- 

 ming off to receive the fmall bits of cloth of 

 various colours that they were to receive in 

 exchange. 



Our boats, having returned to the entrance of 

 the channel at a fnort diltance from a fmall 

 village built on the coaft of New Jerfey, were 

 on the point of quitting thefe favages, when 

 one of them was obferved ftanding up in iht 

 middle of his canoe, and preparing to let fly 

 an arrow at a man in the Efperance's boar. 

 All our people is.ept on their o;uard ; neverthe- 

 lefs this iflandcr recommen:ed his hoftile de- 

 monftrations : one of our men the4i levelled his 

 piece at him ; but the favage, without being 

 alarmed at this threat, deliberately bent his bow, 

 and fhot off an arrow which ftruck one of our 

 boat's crew in rhe forehead, although he was at 

 the diftance of tipwards of eighty meters. This 

 was inftantly returned by the difcharge of a 

 mulkct and a mufl^etoon. The latter piece co- 

 vered V, ith a fliovvcr of bullets the < anoe from 

 "which the arrow had been fliot, and mimediately 

 the three iflandcrs who were in her jumped over- 

 board ; prefently after they returned to their 

 cancc, and paddled quickly towards the coaft, 



but 



