Y ADVENTURES WITH THE INDIANS, WITH WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PORTUGUESE
CAPTAIN, MY COMPANION.

Having eaten some venison, and drunk out of the calabash, the captain
painted me black, with here and there a line of red and white on the
face and shoulders. I performed the same duty towards him, and we then
resumed our paddles, and pushed in a slanting direction for the shore.
The tide now ran down against us, and we could hardly stem it, and
finding ourselves opposite a beach clear of trees for a quarter of a
mile, we agreed to run on shore to look for a large stone. We soon
found one which answered our purpose, and, paddling off again to three
or four hundred yards, we made the stone fast to the bow-rope of our
boat, and anchored the canoe with it. Having succeeded in this, we got
out the fishing-lines, and, with a piece of raw meat as a bait, we soon
had several fish in the canoe; after which we put on no more baits, but
pretended to fish till the tide slacked, when we lifted our anchor and
recommenced our paddling to the northward.

At night we landed on a rock, close to the beach, having well
reconnoitred before it was dark, to see if there were any canoes or
Indians to be seen on the shore; and thus we continued for five days,
during which we passed the mouths of one or two rivers, and had gained,
as we supposed, more that 150 miles along the coast, but how much to the
northward we could not tell, as we followed the windings of the shore.
We were twice obliged to land to obtain water, but we always did so in
the daytime, having taken the precaution to black the whole of our
bodies and take off our trousers before we landed. Our deer's flesh was
all gone, and we continued to live on fish, cooking as much as we could
at one time. The collecting fire-wood was the great risk which we ran;
for we were then obliged to land where there was wood. It was on the
sixth day that we were first in danger. As we rounded a point, we fell
in with another canoe with six or seven people in it. They were not
more than 800 yards off when we first saw them. The Indians stood up in
the canoe, looked at us very earnestly, and then, perceiving that we
were not of their tribe, I presume, pulled towards us. We immediately
turned and pulled away. They had been fishing, and two of them were
pulling up the lines, while the others paddled, which gave us a little
advantage; but they had three paddles and we had only two. They shouted
and p