The tribes that they encountered were also amazed by this encounter with the white man. This was the first time that they had ever came in contact with them, and a chain of warning yells echoed throughout the mountains upon their arrival. The native peoples watched them approach, as they knew that this was no enemy. They believed them to be spirits because they had never seen anything like them. They didn't know of the outside world or even the fact that humans could be so different from their own kind. Instead, they were to assume that these white men were spirits of their own people returning to them.
This misunderstanding led the natives to do countless things, and to have misconceptions of others. The natives kept a close watch of the white man and not because they were weary of them but because they believed them to be holy. They offered them everything they had in hopes that they would stay in their villages. After a short time, they began to trade with the natives and produced a sort of commerce. They eagerly traded because they knew that this new technology would help them greatly, but in one village things took a turn for the worse. The once friendly people of the village quickly became hostile. They believed that these white men were weak and that they could steal anything from the Europeans that was valuable to them. Due to the language barrier between the two, the white man had no ways of telling the natives that they were armed with weapons and could kill them. Once the Europeans discovered the native's plan to attack, they countered so that the natives would not kill them and take their belongings. For the white man it was important to show how powerful these weapons were for their own protection. The Europeans gathered all the natives together in order to show them how powerful their weapons were, and with one shot killed a pig. Their plan of frightening the natives did not work however.