His intentions may have been perfectly friendly but I certainly did not feel confident that they were so.

I intimated that when we got to the boat we should give them some more bread; and I felt that the knowledge that the bread was in the boat was likely to be very much in our favour and to contribute mainly to our safety.

My fear was that they had sent for their spears and wished to detain us till they came.

However we arrived at the beach where the boat was standing outside of the surf waiting for us.
RETURN TO THE VESSEL.
On our return to the ship I proposed that we should now touch at the more northern river where we were deterred from landing by their first appearance.

We went therefore to the mouth of the river, which is completely blocked up by sandhills, with two or three small gaps through which water appeared to have made its way at some time; but the entire of the bed of the river, which was only a few yards wide, was covered with growing samphire.