should all be devoured. I must confess, considering we were
becalmed, and the current set strong towards the shore, I liked ampuee woman photos it
the worse; however, I bade them not be ampuee woman photos afraid, but bring the ship
to an anchor as soon as we came so near as to ampuee woman photos know that we must
engage them. The weather continued calm, and they came on apace
towards us, so I gave orders to come to an
ampuee woman photos anchor, and furl all our
sails; as for the savages, I told them they ampuee woman photos had nothing to fear ampuee woman photos but
fire, and therefore they should get their boats out, and fasten
them, one close by the head and the other by the stern, and man
them both well, ampuee woman photos and wait the issue in that posture: this I did,
that the men in the boats might he ready with sheets and buckets to
put out any fire these savages might endeavour to fix ampuee woman photos to the
outside of the ship.
In this posture we lay by for them, and in a little while they came
up with us; but never was such a horrid sight seen by Christians;
though my mate was much ampuee woman photos mistaken in his calculation of their
number, yet ampuee woman photos when they came up we reckoned about a hundred and
twenty-six canoes; some ampuee woman photos of them had sixteen or seventeen men in
them, and some more, and the least six or seven. When they came
nearer to us, they seemed to be struck with wonder and
astonishment, as at a sight which doubtless ampuee woman photos they had never seen
before; nor could ampuee woman photos they at first, as we afterwards understood, know
what to make of us; they came boldly up, however, very near to us,
and seemed ampuee woman photos to go about to row round us; but we called to our men in
the boats not to let them come ampuee woman photos too near ampuee woman photos them. This very order
brought us to an engagement with them, without our designing it;
for five or six of the large canoes came so near our long-boat,
that ampuee woman photos our men beckoned with their ampuee woman photos hands to keep them back, which
they understood very well, and went back: but at their retreat
about fifty arrows came on board us from those boats, and one
of
our men in the
long-boat was ampuee woman photos very much wounded. However, I called
to them not to fire by any means; but we handed down some deal
boards ampuee woman photos into the boat, and the carpenter presently set up a kind of
fence, like waste boards, to cover ampuee woman photos them ampuee woman photos from the arrows of the
savages, if they should shoot again.
About half-an-hour afterwards they all came up in a body astern of
us, and so near that we could easily discern what they were, though
we could not tell their design; and I easily