Who would almost certainly be armed, being so far from home and in hitherto unexplored territory.
I hope your readers appreciate how unexplored this territory is.
Former lives fall into the unexplored territory of expanded awareness.
He thought nothing of spending eight months alone in unexplored territory, if the Indians would allow him into their camps.
Or simply the vast unexplored territory of your own naivete.
This was new, unexplored territory for him and his boat.
One thing that keeps him going is the unexplored territory.
And then it would be off into unexplored territory.
But as governor he finds himself in largely unexplored territory.
Since this is unexplored territory, there's no telling who might happen by.