went ashore on this Occasion. From their first
Landing they were observed by a Party of Indians,
who hid themselves in the Woods for that Purpose.
The English unadvisedly marched a great distance
from the Shore into the Country, and were intercepted
by the Natives, who slew the greatest Number of them.
Our Adventurer escaped among others, by flying into
a Forest. Upon his coming into a remote and
pathless Part of the Wood, he threw himself [tired
and] breathless on a little Hillock, when an Indian
Maid rushed from a Thicket behind him: After
the first Surprize, they appeared mutually agreeable
to each other. If the European was highly
charmed with the Limbs, Features, and wild Graces
of the Naked American; the American
was no less taken with the Dress, Complexion, and
Shape of an European, covered from Head to
Foot. The Indian grew immediately enamoured
of him, and consequently sollicitous for his Preservation:
She therefore conveyed him to a Cave, where she
gave him a Delicious Repast of Fruits, and led him
to a Stream to slake his Thirst. In the midst
of these good Offices, she would sometimes play
with his Hair, and delight in the Opposition of
its Colour to that of her Fingers: Then open his
Bosome, then laugh at him for covering it.
She was, it seems, a Person of Distinction, for
she every day came to him in a different Dress, of
the most beautiful Shells, Bugles, and Bredes.
She likewise brought him a great many Spoils, which
her other Lovers had presented to her; so that his
Cave was richly adorned with all the spotted Skins
of Beasts, and most Party-coloured Feathers of Fowls,
which that World afforded. To make his Confinement
more tolerable, she would carry him in the Dusk
of the Evening, or by the favour of Moon-light, to
unfrequented Groves, and Solitudes, and show him
where to lye down in Safety, and sleep amidst the
Falls of Waters, and Melody of Nightingales.
Her Part was to watch and hold him in her Arms, for
fear of her Country-men, and wake on Occasions to
consult his Safety. In this manner did the
Lovers pass away their Time, till they had learn’d
a Language of their own, in which the Voyager communicated
to his Mistress, how happy he should be to have
her in his Country, where she should be Cloathed
in such Silks as his Wastecoat was made of, and be
carried in Houses drawn by Horses, without being
exposed to Wind or Weather. All this he promised
her the Enjoyment of, without such Fears and Alarms
as they were there tormented with. In this tender
Correspondence these Lovers lived for several Months,
when Yarico, instructed by her Lover, discovered
a Vessel on the Coast, to which she made Signals,
and in the Night, with the utmost Joy and Satisfaction
accompanied him to a Ships-Crew of his Country-Men,
bound for Barbadoes. When a Vessel from
the Main arrives in that Island, it seems the Planters
come down to the Shoar, where there is an immediate