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of defence. Probably they had a fignal to 
inform each other on fuch occafions when 
they were ready. 
When armed, all, fuddenly and at the fame 
inflant, iifued from their huts, advanced 
towards us with fearful yells, and difcharged 
a flight of arrows, which fell fliort, as we were 
out of their reach, and which we returned by 
a dlfcharge of our pieces, ftili firing over their 
huts. ^ • 
The favages, finding that no one was 
wounded, fuppofed that my ftiot could not in- 
jure them. 1 hey accordingly all joined, and 
advanced againft us with fury. I waited their 
approach without moving. My people, in 
the mean time, cried out to them to reftore 
my oxpn. Whether they heard us amid the 
general npife, I am ignorant ; but, being arrived 
within bow-fhot, they fent us another flight of 
arrows, which now fell every where around U8. 
Thinking that it was no longer time to 
dally and content myfelf with empty noife, 
I ordered my men to fire at their antagonifts ; 
and, our dilchargcs fucceeding alternately, 
we foon faw the troop difperfmg like ants, 
each running his own way, with yells which 
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