And he was very willing to have help; and so, high rewards were advertised, for any who would go unarmed with him.

This opportunity was declined.

Robinson persuaded some tamed natives of both sexes to go with him--a strong evidence of his persuasive powers, for those natives well knew that their destruction would be almost certain.

As it turned out, they had to face death over and over again.
Robinson and his little party had a difficult undertaking upon their hands.

They could not ride off, horseback, comfortably into the woods and call Leonidas and his 300 together for a talk and a treaty the following day; for the wild men were not in a body; they were scattered, immense distances apart, over regions so desolate that even the birds could not make a living with the chances offered--scattered in groups of twenty, a dozen, half a dozen, even in groups of three.