The next day was employed by him in further surveys and discoveries.
During a visit to the Indians, on the 24th, Tupia being of the party, they were observed to be continually talking of guns and shooting people.

For this subject of their conversation, the English gentlemen could not at all account.

But, after perplexing themselves with various conjectures, they at length learned, that, on the 21st, one of our officers, under the pretence of going out to fish, had rowed up to a hippah, or village, on the coast.

When he had done so, two or three canoes coming off towards his boat, his fears suggested that an attack was intended, in consequence of which three muskets were fired, one with small shot, and two with ball, at the Indians, who retired with the utmost precipitation.

It is highly probable, that they had come out with friendly intentions, for such intentions were expressed by their behaviour, both before and afterwards.