270 TRIBES FROM THE SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH-WEST, [CH. VI. 



I took forward some men, huzzaing after tliem for a short 

 distance, and we fired one shot over their heads, as they ran 

 stumbling to the other side of an intervening clear flat, 

 towards the tribe, who were assembling, as lookers-on. 

 There they made a fire, and seeming disposed to stop, I 

 ordered four men with muskets to advance and make them 

 quit that spot ; but the men had scarcely left the camp when 

 the natives withdrew, and joined the tribe beyond, amid 

 much laughter and noise. These were some natives who 

 had, the day before, arrived from the south-east, having 

 joined the fishing tribe, while they were at our present camp. 

 These men of the south-east, had a remarkable peculiarity of 

 countenance, occasioned by high cheek-bones, and com- 

 pressed noses. We imagined we had met their bravado very 

 successfully, for soon after they had been chased from our 

 camp, part of them crossed the country to the eastward, as if 

 returning whence they came. They passed us at no great 

 distance, but did not venture to make further demonstrations 

 with burning boughs. At one o'clock, the tribe, for which 

 the messenger had been sent, as 1 concluded, the day before, 

 appeared on a small clear hill to the south-west of our camp, 

 coming apparently from the very quarter where I wished to go. 

 They soon came up to our tents without ceremony, led on by 

 the same old thief, who had followed us down the river, and 

 who seemed to have been the instigator of all this mischief. 

 As he had been already detected by us, and was aware, that 

 he was a marked man, it appeared that he had coloured his 

 head and beard black, by way of disguise. This was a very 

 remarkable personage, his features decidedly Jewish, having 

 a thin aquiline nose, and a very piercing eye, as intent on mis- 

 chief, as if it had belonged to Satan himself. I received the 

 strangers, who appeared to be a stupid harmless-looking set, 



liim, so tliat those who were conquerors always spared them. Hence, when a 

 total destruction of an army, ])iace, or people, was hyperliolically expressed, it 

 used to be said, ' not so much as a torch-bearer, or fire-carrier escaped.' " — 

 Herod. Uranla,fA\e\. viii.c. (>. 



