What astonished me, was to see such a Number of Corn-fields and Pasture-grounds, in a flourishing Condition, and well fenced, and yet not meet with the least Track or Path.  However, I walk’d on till about Three o’ Clock, as I guess’d by the Sun, which, tho’ it was excessive hot, was no way uneasy to me, being flickered by the Hedges.  Being come to the Banks of a large River, bordered with Cedars, the tallest I ever saw, and being under no Apprehension of wild Beasts in a Country so well cultivated, I laid me down under one of the largest, and slept till the Sun was near setting; and doubtless, not having closed my Eyes the Night before, I should have continued my Nap, had I not been wakened with the Sound of human Voices.

I started up, and look’d round me, but could perceive nothing like a Man.  I then holloo’d, and heard somebody say, Quaw shoomaw:  I answered, Quaw shoomaw; upon which I heard Two speak, and answer each other, as I thought, over my Head.  I look’d up, but could, by reason of the Thickness and Height of the Tree, see nothing.  I went some Paces from it, and looking up again, I heard a Voice, which utered these Words hastily, Quaw shoomaw? starts; which is, having afterwards learned the Language, Who art thou? stand.

Hardly had these Words reached my Ears, when I saw a Cock and Hen fly down from the Tree, and light near me; they were about Six Foot tall, and their Bodies somewhat larger than a good Weather.  The Cock who was the larger the Two, coming pretty near me, tho’ he discover’d in his Eyes both Fear and Astonishment, repeated the Words, Quaw shoomaw.  The Hen, who kept a greater Distance, cried out, Ednu sinvi, which I since learn’d, is, Whence come you?

I was as much surprized to hear Fowls speak, as they were to see such a Monster as I appeared to be.  I answer’d in her own Words, Ednu sinvi, upon which she ask’d me, I suppose, a String of Questions, with a Loquacity common to the sex and then fell a cackling.  Three or four Chickens came running to her, and at the Sight of me hid their Heads under their Mother’s Wing, as I suppos’d her.  One of them, who was a Cock not above Five Foot high, at last took Courage to peep out, and said something to his Father; and, as I guess taking Courage from what Answer he return’d, ventured to approach me.  He walk’d round me tho’ he kept some Distance, and spoke in a threatning Tone.  I answer’d in a melancholy one, and in my own Language, That I was an unfortunate shipwreck’d Man.  The Youngster, I suppose, thinking me a harmless Animal, ventured to strike at me, and if I had not avoided the Stroke, I believe he had split my Skull, for his Spurrs were about Eighteen Inches long, near Five about, and as sharp as Needles.