For I cannot think they ever were employed for Traffick by Water; the River being so full of Rocks that Boats could never come up into it.
[The Woods hereabouts.] The Woods in all these Northern Parts are short and shrubbed, and so they are by the River side, and the lower the worse; and the Grounds so also.
[How they secured themselves a nights against wild Beasts.] In the Evenings we used to pitch our Tent, and make a great Fire both before and behind us, that the wild Beasts might have notice where we lay; and we used to hear the Voices of all sorts of them, but, thanks be to God, none ever came near to hurt us.

Yet we were the more wary of them, because once a Tiger shewed us a cheat.

For having bought a Deer, and having nothing to salt it up in, we packed it up in the Hide thereof salted, and laid it under a Bench in an open House, on which I lay that Night, and Stephen layd just by it on the Ground, and some three People more lay then in the same House; and in the said House a great Fire, and another in the Yard.

Yet a Tiger came in the Night, and carried Deer and Hide and all away.

But we missing it, concluded it was a Thief.