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Then we return’d again to the Place 
where we landed, and there we dug for 
W ater. 
While we were at work there came 9 
or 10 of the Natives to a fmall Hill a little 
way from us , and flood there menacing 
and fhreatning of us, and making a great 
Noife. At lafl one of them came towards 
us, and the rert followed at a diflance. I 
went out to meet him, and came within 
50 yards of him, making to him all the 
Signs of Peace and Friendfhip I could ; 
but then he ran away, neither would they 
any of them flay lor us to come nigh 
them ; for we tried two or three times. 
At lafl I took two Men with me , and 
went in the Afternoon along by the Sea- 
fjde, purpofely to catch one of them, if I 
could, of whom I might learn where they 
got their frefh Water, There were 10 
or 1 2 of the Natives a little way off, who 
feeing us three going away from the reft 
of our Men, followed us at a diflance. I 
thought they would follow us : but there 
being for awhile a Sand-bank between us 
and them, that they could not then fee us, 
we made a halt, and hid our felves^ in a 
bending of the Sand bank. T.hey knew 
we muft be thereabouts, and being ? or 4 
times our Number, thought to leize us. 
So they difpers’d themfelves, fome going 
to the Sea-fhore, and others beating about 
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