I went out to meet him, and came within fifty yards of him, making to him all the signs of peace and friendship I could, but then he ran away, neither would they any of them stay for us to come nigh them, for we tried two or three times.

At last I took two men with me, and went in the afternoon along by the sea-side, purposely to catch one of them, if I could, of whom I might learn where they got their fresh water.

There were ten or twelve of the natives a little way off, who, seeing us three going away from the rest of our men, followed us at a distance.

I thought they would follow us, but there being for awhile a sand-bank between us and them, that they could not then see us, we made a halt, and hid ourselves in a bending of the sand-bank.

They knew we must be thereabouts, and being three or four times our numbers, thought to seize us.