When We Came To Them, We Found All Well,
And Demanded The Reason Of Their Firing The Guns:
They told us,
that an Indian came creeping along the Bank, as they suppos'd,
to shoot at them; and
Therefore they shot at him at a great distance,
with small Shot, but thought they did him no Hurt; for they saw him run away.
Presently after our Return to the Boat, and while we were thus talking,
came two Indians to us, with their Bows and Arrows, crying `Bonny, Bonny'.
We took their Bows and Arrows from them, and gave them Beads,
to their Content; then we led them, by the Hand, to the Boat,
and shew'd them the Arrow-head sticking in her Side, and related to them
the whole Passage; which when they understood, both of them shew'd
a great Concern, and signify'd to us, by Signs, that they knew nothing of it;
so we let them go, and mark'd a Tree on the Top of the Bank,
calling the Place Mount-Skerry. We look'd up the River,
as far as we could discern, and saw that it widen'd, and came running
directly down the Country: So we return'd, viewing the Land
on both sides the River, and finding the Banks steep in some places,
but very high in others. The Bank-sides are generally Clay,
and as some of our Company did affirm, some Marl. The Land and Timber
up this River is no way inferiour to the best in the other, which we call
the main River.
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