"Indians where the Chief of Pacaha was... on an islet between two arms of the river... there were 5,000 souls on that islet... but when detected they ...fled in great haste to the other side of the river... swimming, where many people were drowned, principally women and children... we captured many Indians and a quantity of clothing which the Indians had on wooden rafts... (several of those raft" . <1st-history-of-the.us> . . . .