with some of the negro natives, take ten or twelve of them prisoners, and
binding them as slaves, cause them to travel with us, and make them carry
our baggage; which I alleged would be convenient and useful many ways as
well to show us the way, as to converse with other natives for us.

This counsel was not accepted at first, but the natives soon gave them
reason to approve it, and also gave them an opportunity to put it in
practice; for, as our little traffic with the natives was hitherto upon the
faith of their first kindness, we found some knavery among them at last;
for having bought some cattle of them for our toys, which, as I said, our
cutler had contrived, one of our men differing with his chapman, truly they
huffed him in their manner, and, keeping the things he had offered them for
the cattle, made their fellows drive away the cattle before his face, and
laugh at him. Our man crying out loud of this violence, and calling to some
of us who were not far off, the negro he was dealing with threw a lance at
him, which came so true, that, if he had not with great agility jumped
aside, and held up his hand also to turn the lance as it came, it had
struck through his body; and, as it was, it wounded him in the arm; at
which the man, enraged, took up his fuzee, and shot the negro through the
heart.

The others that were near him, and all those that were with us at a
distance, were so terribly frighted, first, at the flash of fire; secondly,
at the noise; and thirdly, at seeing their countryman killed, that they
stood like men stupid and amazed, at first, for some time; but after they
were a little recovered from their fright, one of them, at a good distance
from us, set up a sudden screaming noise, which, it seems, is the noise
they make when they go to fight; and all the rest understanding what he
meant, answered him, and ran together to the place where he was, and we not
knowing what it meant, stood still, looking upon one another like a parcel