IIAfter about two hours the Court retired, and I was left with a
strong guard to keep away the crowd, some of whom had had the
impudence to shoot their arrows at me as I sat by the door of my
house. But the colonel ordered six of them to be seized and
delivered bound into my hands. I put five of them into my
coat pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a face as if I would eat
him alive. The poor man screamed terribly, and the colonel
and his officers were much distressed, especially when they saw me
take out my penknife. But I soon set them at ease, for,
cutting the strings he was bound with, I put him gently on the
ground, and away he ran. I treated the rest in the same
manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I saw that
both the soldiers and people were delighte
