Priming Our Pistols, We Went Where Our Fancy First Lead Us, Being Impossible For Us To Avoid The Destinies Of The Heavens; No Sooner Tourned Our Backs, But My Nose Fell Ableeding Without Any Provocation In The Least.

Certainly it was a warning for me of a beginning of a yeare and a half of hazards and of miseryes that weare to befall mee.

We did shoot sometime and killed some Duks, which made one of my fellow travellers go no further. I seeing him taking such a resolution, I proferred some words that did not like him, giving him the character of a timourous, childish humor; so this did nothing prevaile with him, to the Contrary that had with him quite another isue then what I hoped for; ffor offending him with my words he prevailed so much with the others that he persuaded them to doe the same. I lett them goe, laughing them to scorne, beseeching them to helpe me to my fowles, and that I would tell them the discovery of my designes, hoping to kill meat to make us meate att my retourne.

I went my way along the wood some times by the side of the river, where I finde something to shute att, though no considerable quantitie, which made me goe a league off and more, so I could not go in all further then St. Peeter's, which is nine mile from the plantation by reason of the river Ovamasis, which hindered me the pasage.

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