I was given the name of "Winnimah" by these people, because my arrows sped like lightning.

Six of the alligator's teeth I took for myself, and made them into a circlet which I wore round my head.
Some little time after this incident I decided to remove my dwelling-place to the top of a headland on the other side of the bay, some twenty miles away, where I thought I could more readily discern any sail passing by out at sea.

The blacks themselves, who were well aware of my hopes of getting back to my own people, had themselves suggested that I might find this a more likely place for the purpose than the low- lying coast on which their tribe was then encamped.

They also pointed out to me, however, that I should find it cold living in so exposed a position.

But the hope of seeing passing sails decided me, and one morning I took my departure, the whole nation of blacks coming out in full force to bid us adieu.