The natives had not given the strangers cause to entertain the slightest suspicion of them.

Before leaving the place, Captain William Guy wished to return once more to the village of Klock-Klock, having, from prudent motives, left six men on board, the guns charged, the bulwark nettings in their place, the anchor hanging at the forepeak--in a word, all in readiness to oppose an approach of the natives.

Too-Wit, escorted by a hundred warriors, came out to meet the visitors.

Captain William Guy and his men, although the place was propitious to an ambuscade, walked in close order, each pressing upon the other.

On the right, a little in advance, were Arthur Pym, Dirk Peters, and a sailor named Allen.
Having reached a spot where a fissure traversed the hillside, Arthur Pym turned into it in order to gather some hazel nuts which hung in clusters upon stunted bushes.