We By These
Means Had Intelligence That They Weare To Come & Visit Our Forts.
To take away all suspicion of our innocency from thinking to build any
shipp, which if it had come to their knowledge had don a great prejudice to
our former designe, a shippe then uppon the docke almost finished.
Heere we
made a double floore in the hall where the shippe was abuilding, so that
the wild men, being ignorant of our way of building, could not take any
notice of our cuningnesse, which proved to our desire. So done, finding
nothing that was reported, all began to be quiet and out of feare. By this
we weare warned from thencefoorth, mistrusting all that came there, so
preserved ourselves, puting nothing in fight that should give the least
suspition. Both shipps weare accomplished; we kept them secretly & covered
them with 12 boats of rind that we kept for fishing and hunting. The
wildmen knewed of these small things, but suspected nothing, believing that
the french would never suspect to venture such a voyage for the difficultie
of the way and violence of the swiftnesse of the rivers and length of the
way. We stayed for opportunity in some quietnesse, devising to contrive our
game as soone as the spring should begin. The winter we past not without
apprehensions, having had severall allarmes, false as [well] as true; for
often weare we putt to our armes, in so much that one of our sentryes was
once by force drawen from the doore of the fort.
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