About One In The Afternoon I Came
Aboard, And Found All My Officers And Men Very Importunate To Go To
That Bay Where The Hogs Were Said To Be.
I was loth to yield to it,
fearing they would deal too roughly with the natives.
By two
o'clock in the afternoon many black clouds gathered over the land,
which I thought would deter them from their enterprise; but they
solicited me the more to let them go. At last I consented, sending
those commodities I had ashore with me in the morning, and giving
them a strict charge to deal by fair means, and to act cautiously
for their own security. The bay I sent them to was about two miles
from the ship. As soon as they were gone, I got all things ready,
that, if I saw occasion, I might assist them with my great guns.
When they came to land, the natives in great companies stood to
resist them, shaking their lances, and threatening them, and some
were so daring as to wade into the sea, holding a target in one hand
and a lance in the other. Our men held up to them such commodities
as I had sent, and made signs of friendship, but to no purpose, for
the natives waved them off. Seeing, therefore, they could not be
prevailed upon to a friendly commerce, my men, being resolved to
have some provision among them, fired some muskets to scare them
away, which had the desired effect upon all but two or three, who
stood still in a menacing posture, till the boldest dropped his
target and ran away.
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