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off to me : my other Man alfo was with^^»;^^- 
me, who had done nothing all this while, 
having come out unarm’d ; and I return’d 
back with my Men, defigning to attempt 
the Natives no farther , being very forry 
for what had happen’d already. They 
took up their wounded Companion : and 
my young Man , who had been ftruck 
through the Cheek by one of their Lances, 
was afraid it had been poifon’d : but I did 
not think that likely. His Wound was 
very painful to him , being made with a 
blunt Weapon : but he foon recover’d of 
it. ,, 
Among the N. Hollanders , whdui we 
were thus engag’d with , there was one 
who by his Appearance and Carriage, as 
well in the Morning as this Afternoon, 
feem’d to be the Chief of them, and a kind 
of Prince or Captain among them. He 
was a young brisk Man, not very tall, nor 
fo perfonableasfome ofthereft, tho’more 
aflive and couragious : He was painted 
(which none of the reft were at all) with 
a Circle of white Pafte or Pigment (a fort 
Lime, as we thought) about iiis Eyes, and 
a white ftreak down his Nofe from his 
Forehead to the tip of it. And his Breaft 
and fome part of his Arms w'ere alfo made 
white with the fame Paint : not for Beauty 
or Ornament , one v/ould think , but as 
fome wild Mian Warriors are faid to do, he 
L 2 feem’d 
