Wild with excitement, they rushed into the water, and danced in our rear, with drawn bows, taking aim, and making various savage gesticulations.

Their leader urged them to get behind some snags, and then shoot at us.

The party on the bank in front had many muskets--and those of them, who had bows, held them with arrows ready set in the bowstrings.

They had a mass of thick bush and trees behind them, into which they could in a moment dart, after discharging their muskets and arrows, and be completely hidden from our sight; a circumstance that always gives people who use bows and arrows the greatest confidence.
Notwithstanding these demonstrations, we were exceedingly loath to come to blows.

We spent a full half-hour exposed at any moment to be struck by a bullet or poisoned arrow.