This feud began while I was there; so that I lost half the
satisfaction I proposed, in not seeing and visiting the Indian
towns. But one day, bemoaning of our misfortunes upon this account,
Caesar told us we need not fear, for if we had a mind to go, he
would undertake to be our guard. Some would, but most would not
venture: about eighteen of us resolved, and took barge; and after
eight days, arrived near an Indian town: but approaching it, the
hearts of some of our company failed, and they would not venture on
shore; so we polled, who would, and who would not. For my part, I
said, if Caesar would, I would go. He resolved; so did my brother
and my woman, a maid of good courage. Now, none of us speaking the
language of the people, and imagining we should have a half
diversion in gazing only, and not knowing what they said, we took a
fisherman that lived at the mouth of the river, who had been a long
inhabitant there, and obliged him to go with us. But because he was
known to the Indians, as trading among 'em, and being, by long
living there, become a perfect Indian in color, we, who had a mind
to surprise 'em, by making them see something they never had seen
(that is, white people), resolved only myself, my brother, and woman
should go: so Caesar, the fisherman, and the rest, hiding behind
some thick reeds and flowers that grew in the banks, let us pass on
towards the town, which was on the bank of the river all along. A
little distant from the houses, or huts, we saw some dancing, others
busied in fetching and carrying of water from the river.
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