About an hour after sunset, as we were chatting by the fire side and preparing to go to rest, we heard voices at a little distance in the wood.

Our natives caught the sound instantaneously and, bidding us be silent, listened attentively to the quarter whence it had proceeded.

In a few minutes we heard the voices plainly; and, wishing exceedingly to open a communication with this tribe, we begged our natives to call to them, and bid them to come to us, to assure them of good treatment, and that they should have something given them to eat.

Colbee no longer hesitated, but gave them the signal of invitation, in a loud hollow cry.

After some whooping and shouting on both sides, a man with a lighted stick in his hand advanced near enough to converse with us.