Sensa was someone who traveled before them and said he’d rather travel by land. A guy said think of what we went through for this and we have nothing. They believed the Natives (barbarians, Indians) would help and they would be welcomed with riches, homes and food but were actually being shot at by what they called the beasts (Natives.) They were upset they didn’t even have a mountain to look over nor did they know of how many Indians there were.
A shalap is a smaller ship carried by the big ship. Their shalap was beat up so they needed to fix it. They believed it wouldn’t be fixed soon so they decided to go by foot to river they could see far away. They captain set 16 of them out in the wilderness, all armed, to see what’s out there. None of them knew where or how many Indians there were. They saw