He could not, or did not conceal, from the Indians his fears that they were meditating treachery.

These artless men, to convince him that he had nothing to apprehend, actually broke their bows and arrows, and threw them into the fire.

But nothing could induce Hudson to remain on shore through the night.

He describes the land here as very fertile, bearing abundantly, corn, pumpkins, grapes, plums, and various other kinds of small fruits.
Availing himself of a fair wind, he again spread his sails, and on the 1st of October, cast anchor at the mouth of Haverstraw Bay, in the vicinity of Stony Point.

He had scarcely furled his sails, when a large number of natives came paddling out from the shore in their little birch canoes.