They were far from the ship, the night came on and a thick cloud of rain and fog 'settled over them ; seeing their condition, the Indians sprang to their boats to rescue them, fear seized them, the savage was more dreaded then the tempest, a falcon shot was hurled at the approaching canoes, the swift arrow re man was slain and two more hurt."

plied, and "in the fight one

Day after day the Indians came on board, brought tobacco and Indian wheat, and oysters and beans, " making show of love," but he " durst not trust them." They brought their women

and children with them, but he " durst not trust them." At Yonkers they came on board in large numbers here he de ;

tained two of them, and dressed

them in red coats, and though

they jumped from the ports and swam away, their detention was not the less a violation of the laws of hospitality, so they

regarded it, for when they had reached the shore they called to him " in scorn."

At Katskill he found a "very loving people and very old men." They brought on board " Indian corn, pumpkins, and At Castleton they were very tobacco," and used him well. " master's mate went on land 2 with an old sociable, and the savage, a governor of the country, who carried him to his house and made him good cheere." " I sailed to the shore," he says, " in one of their canoes, with an old man who was chief of a These I tribe consisting of forty men and seventeen women. saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it