I don't think they will try to interfere with us, as long as we are at work; but they will certainly oppose us, if we attempt to enter the forest, and will effectually prevent our wandering about in search of water.

We could only go in a strong body and, even then, might lose a good many lives from their arrows.
"Of course, we should be able to beat them off; but I should be sorry to have to kill a lot of the poor little beggars.

One can hardly blame them for their hostility.

Naturally, they want to have the place to themselves, and are just as averse to our landing as our forefathers were to Julius Caesar and his Romans.
"Of course they would be, if they only knew it, very much better off by being civil.

We have numbers of things that would be invaluable to them.