Therefore we always left one within.

The rest of the English men lived round about us, some four or five miles distant, some more.

So that we were, as it were, within reach one of another; which made us like our present Situation the more.
[Their freedom and Trade.] Thus we lived upon the Mountains, being round about us beset with watches, most of our People being now married: so that now all talk and suspition of our running away was laid aside.

Neither indeed was it scarce possible.

The effect of which was, that now we could walk from one to the other, or where we would upon the Mountains, no man molesting or disturbing us in the least.