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1796         women being amongst them; who had indian corn and
March       potatoes growing. The women, they said, they would bring
Sunday     to us, as well as plenty of black ones; and that we should
    27     get quantities of fish and ducks in the river.
      About noon, we came off the entrance of the river. It appeared
to be a small stream which had made a paƒsage through the
beach; but we could not tell how it would be poƒsible, even for
our small boat, to enter it, as the surf was breaking nearly
acroƒs; however, by following their directions, in going sometimes
close to the surf, sometimes to one side, and sometimes to the other,
we got in with difficulty; and rowed about a mile up in little
more water than the boat drew, against a very strong tide.
      Our conductors had gone on shore immediately after we en-
-tered the river, and were now walking, with eight or ten strange
natives, on the sand abreast of us.
      The boat having touched the ground once or twice, and find-
ing the rivulet still continui ^ng shoal, we began to relinquish the hope
of getting up it; and to consider, that there might not be water
enough for the ^ ^boat to go out again till the flood tide should make,
which would leave us in the power of the natives; and even as it
was, we were in their power; for the water was scarcely higher than
the knees, and our guns were still full of sand and rusty: for-
-tunately, the natives were unacquainted with this latter cir-
-cumstance.
      Being thus situated, it became neceƒsary for us to get away
from this place as soon as poƒsible; and having agreed upon a plan