TO make a long and tedious discourse of that which may be vttered in few words , expe●●ce teacheth , doth rather moue a loathing in the Reader , then any way procure a liking either in reader or hearer : in which respect I haue rather desired briefly to deliuer a plaine truth , which of it selfe to the wise and discreete is euer most acceptable , then with filed phrases , or eloquent termes ( which indeede in mee are wanting ) to adde any thing more then is most true , neither to represent , or lay open to the view of the worlde , ought more then what my selfe with my associates haue had as wofull experience , as euer ( in my iudgement ) had any creatures liuing vnder the Canopie of Heauen : only thus much I thinke it not impertinent to deliuer , for the better explanation of that which followeth , I make no question , but that the greater sort of people , which either haue trauailed themselues , had conuersation with trauaylers , or imployed themselues to much reading , are not ignorant that in the maine of America , in that part thereof which is vulgarly called The west India , amongst many other large Teritories & Dominions , is the great and mightie Kingdome of Guiana , scituated neare about the middle of the saide continent , or somwhat more southerly , it being neare vnder that Equinoctial line , the Souther most part therof , and extending it selfe to about some 5. or 6. degrees of North Latitude , being bordered on the South-west with Perue , on the South with Amazonis , on the North with Mexico , and on the East with the Ocean Sea .

The saide Countrey of Guiana was first discouered or made knowne to our English Nation , as farre as I can learne , about the yeare of our Lord 1594. at the charge and direction principally of Sir Walter Rawleigh : the same againe seconded by himselfe the yeare following : afterward againe by Captaine Keymish and oth●●● , at the charges of the said Sir Walter Rawleigh it being reputed to bée the chiefest place for golde Mines in all the West India : but the prosecution therof being left off for a time , by what occasion I know not , it so happened that in the yeare of our Lord 1602 , Captaine Charles Leigh made a voyage thither , for the discouerie thereof , and finding a fit place for habitation , determined to procure the planting of a Colonie there in the Riuer Wiapica , which said determination at his returne being put in practise , with the furtherance and speciall charge of the worshipfull Knight Sir Oliue Leigh , certaine men were sent thither , there to inhabite vnder the conduct of the aforesaid Captain Charles Leigh , who remayned there about a yeare and a halfe , where he with manie of his companie dyed . For a supplie vnto which companie , was another companie sent , in the yeare 1605. at the charges of the sayde Sir Oliue Leigh , and certaine other aduenturers ▪ of which companie my selfe was one , all vnder the conduct and leading of Captaine Sen-Iohns , who being embarked in the Oliue Branch of Sir Oliue Leigh , whereof was captaine and master vnder God , captaine Catlin and Arthur Chambers .

Being thus readie , doe set saile the twelfth of Aprill one thousand sixe hundred and fiue , nothing hapning worth note , till wee came as high as the North Cape , where an English Barke ouertaking vs , foure of our Gentlemen , by reason of their sickenesse were desirous to returne home againe , so that getting their passage for Lisbone , they tooke their leaue of vs , whose names were , Maister Rogers , Maister Catlin , Maister Sanders , and another whose name I doe not now remember . So wee continued our course to the Canaries , and so to Cape Blancko in Barbarie , and from thence to the I le of Mayo : in which time of our voyage it fell out as often it hapneth in such actions , that our companie being deuided , ( as being some sea-men , and the rest land-men , who are for the most part many times of contrarie natures ) there was some heart-burning and malice one against another , which rested not onely in the common sort , but rather and most chiefly in our captaines , whose haughtie mindes not brooking contradiction on either side , had like to haue growne to a daungerous distention , had it not beene appeased by the diligent perswasions of some other of the companie , whose plausible spirites were more addicted to vnitie and peace , then any way liking of such daungerous and indirect courses , they well fore-knowing that ciuill discorde haue beene the ouerthrow of mightie kingdomes , and great common weales , and therefore well might haue béene the vtter subuersion of our so weake & slenderly gouerned companie . But all parties being now ( as it seemed ) to the outward view quieted , we went a shore vpon the said I le of . Mayo to take in fresh water and s●lt , where we found 5. Portugals , which had bin robbed by the French , and there set a shore , where hauing stayed fiue dayes hunting of Goats , and refreshing of our men , we departed to saint Iago , where we landed the fiue Portugals , in reward of which kindnesse of ours , the Inhabitants tooke thrée of our men , and kept them as prisoners while they sent seauen leagues into the Countrey to know the Gouernours pleasure , and at night sent them aboord againe , hauing taken certaine commodities from them , which they had to buy some of their fruits .

From thence ( hauing weyed our Anchor ) with a merrie gale we sailed towardes our desired place to the countrey of Guiana : but missing of our expectation , here began the first scene of our ensuing miseries : for whether it was our Masters want of knowledge that we fell not with the prefixed place , or that the current which our master alledged to be the reason , that setting verie strongly to the North-wards , put vs so farre short thereof , or whither ( as of all others that is most certaine ) it pleased God in that place at that time , and in such a manner , to let vs feele some part of his heauie displeasure , conceyued against vs for our times formerly mispent : so as I say the ending of our hopes was the beginning of our miseries : for plying to and againe , wandring as it were in a wildernesse of woe , betwixt hope and dispaire , the time passed away & with the time our victuals , the onely hop● of our health exceedingly wasted : therevpon our allowance was greatly shortned , & with the same & other occurrencee our mens minds very much distracted , which bred amongst vs many fearfull & daungerous mutinies . And as one miserie commeth still in the necke of another , so fared it with vs : for with our want of victuals , we being neare vnto the Equinoctiall , and the Sun in that part of the Zodiacke which was neare vnto our Zenith , it was so exceeding hot , that with the vehemencie thereof many of our men fell maruellous weake , and some of them died , namely our Carpenters mate Iohn Browne , our Cooke , and Robert Paine , and many others were is weake , that they were not able to come aboue the hatches . This extremitie caused vs ( though against our stomacks ) to entreate the master to bring vs to the nearest shore he could . And so hauing beene seuenteene wéekes at sea , in stead of our hopefull expectations of attaining to a pleasant , rich and golden Counteey , and the comfortable companie of our friends and Countrey-men , there as we supposed then resident , we were brought to an Iland in the West India somewhat distant from the maine , called Santa Lucia , hauing about twelue degrees of North latitude , inhabited onely with a companie of most cruell Caniballs and man-eaters , where we had no sooner anchored , but the Carebyes came in their Periagoes or Boats aboord vs with great store of Tobacco , Plantons , Potatoes , Pines , Sugar Canes , and diuerse other fruits , with Hens , Chickens , Turtles , & Guauas : for all which we contented and pleased them well . These Carrebyes at their first comming in our sight , did seeme most strange and vgly , by reason they are all naked , with long blacke haire hanging downe their shoulders , their bodies all painted with red , and from their eares to their eyes , they do make three strokes with red , which makes them looke like diuels or Anticke faces , wherein they take a great pride .

The next morning we went a shore with all our weak men , where there was sixe or seauen houses planted by a pleasant fresh water Riuer , which Captain Sen-iohns bought for a Hatchet of an Indian Captaine called Anthonie , who could speake a little Spanish , and he told vs he had beene a slaue to the Spaniard in the I le of Margareta : so he and al his companie went to another towne some three myles of .

Whilest our sicke men were a shore refreshi●g themselues , our Maister would haue departed , and haue left them to shift among the Carrebyes , but Captaine Sen-Iohns , and the chiefe of our companie would not consent thereto . And seeing it was in vaine all of vs for to venter home in the Shippe with that small allowance , wee were willing to come a shore , and there to liue vntill it should please God to send some meanes to bring vs a way : vpon that condition they should deliuer vnto vs one great peece , and euery man his Musket and weapons , and halfe the munition in the ship , with all our Chests and commodities whatsoeuer , which hee would not graunt , before we had subscribed to a certaine Writing which he wrote to excuse himselfe at his returne into England : so we receyued foure little Barrels of powder , and ten round Bullets for the great Peece , which when wee brought a shore did much feare the Indians , for they asked vs if we brought it to kill them . But to please their humours , wee tolde them it was to kill the Spaniards , and then they came and helped vs a shore with her , and with all our Chestes , of their owne accord .

Now after they had deliuered all things a shore out of the Boat , we thought it good to stay her , and to kéepe her for our owne vse , for wee did not know what neede we might haue of such a commoditie afterwarde : so wée sent the sailers aboord in an Indian Boat , onely three would not goe but would stay with vs : so we were in all left a shore threescore and seauen in the Isle of Saint Lucca .

At night when we were all sitting togither at supper about a great fire , which they could well perceue from the ship when it was darke : and as it should seeme in reuenge of their Boat , before they departed they purposed to let vs know they were not well pleased with the action , they shot a great peece at vs with a single Bullet , but as it pleased God it fell downe by the side of our house , and missed vs , which if it had come amongest vs we sitting so thicke , it could not haue chosen but haue beene the death of many of vs .

This made Captaine Sen-Iohns discharge our péece at them , without intent to hurt them , but fairly ouershot them : for he might haue sunke them , and would if they had shot once more : then presently they weyed Anchor and departed .

The next morning Captaine Sen-Iohns went in the Boate , with fifteene more in his companie , to trade with Anthonio his father for Rone cloath , which he had saued at sea great store : but when we came there , contrarie to our expectation , we found our ship there trading with them , who had incensed the Indians sore agaynst vs , telling them that we were had people , and would take all they had from them , and would cut their throats .

And as we towed alongst the shore , they discharged halfe a dozen peece of Ordenance , and a volly of small shot at vs , but there great shot ouershot vs , and light vpon the rockes , and scarred the Indians a shore mightily , and their small shotte light short without harming vs . Their decermination was to driue vs from our Boat , or else to haue sunke her , for their great shot came so thicke that wee were forced to leape a shore into the Woods : then they manned their Periago , and came to take our Boat away , which wee perceyuing entered her againe , and escaped all their malice : so wee returned home againe safe , and they departed toward Saint Vincent , the eighteenth or ninteenth of August , 1605.

After the departure of our ship we remained in peaceable manner amongst the Indians , dayly trading with them for all manner of victuall , as Plantons , Potatoes , Penas , Papaians , Pumpins , Gallobashoes , Pappes , Mammies , Guiauas , with diuerse other fruits , and Tobacco aboundance , all verie pleasant to eate . Also they brought Turtles , Guanas Hens and Chickens , Woodcocks and Snipes , with some Pellicans .

As for the Turtles , we our selues did vse euery night by courses to send out sixe to catch them , which is easily done , by reason that euery night they vse to come a shore , and lay their egs in the sand , and by the heat of the Sun they are hatched . At their comming out of the water they do make as broad a tract as a Cart with their sins , by which meanes wee are ledde to the place where they doe sit , and so we turne them on their backes , which being done , they can doe nothing but so lie till they bee deade . The meate of them dooth eate like vnto Veale , and I haue seene taken out of one of them to the number of sixe or seauen hundred egges , which wee doe frie with the fat or oyle of the Turtle , and also with Cassada wee did make exceeding good White-pots and Puddings , putting the Egges and Oyle into it . Also the Guana is proportioned like a Serpent , more then an ell long , with foure short feete . In eating it is like a Connie , and hath in his belly to the number of fiue and twentie or thirtie Egges .

This Cassada is a roote of a tree , whose iuce is poyson : but being squeassed , the flower doth make an excellent kind of bread , and will kéepe long .

The Indians did maruaile much at our manner of dressing our meate , and they would be familier , and would dine with vs verie often , but by no meanes wee could not make them eate salt : for they vse to eate all their meate seasoned with Ginnie Pepper : their women came verie seldome vnto vs , for they are verie iealous ouer them . Once or twice there came some women with them , vnto whome wee gaue shirts to couer their nakednesse , whereof they seemed proud : Their ancient women are verie vgly , by reason of their side breastes , which dooth lie like emptie bagges : but those which haue not giuen sucke , are well proportioned and proper .

Also we had a Net , with the which wee would get at one draught as many fish of diuerse sorts , as would serue all our companie a day .

A little before our arriuall , three Spanish ships were cast away , and much of the goodes these Indians had saued with their Boats , and hid it in the Woods , they had so much Roan cloath , that all their Periagoes had sayles thereof . They also had great store of stuffe , Sirge , and Spanish woollen cloath , cloakes and apparell : insomuch that if we had had a Barke of fortie tuns burthen , wee could haue loaden her home with such commodities as would haue made a sauing voyage . All which we could haue bought for hatchets , kniues , beads , fish-hookes , and thimbles , with other trifles .

Thus for the space of fiue or sixe Weekes , wee went not much abroade , but cut downe the Woods about our houses euerie day , and mounted our great Peece vpon broade Tables , which wee our selues had sawne , least the Carrebyes should at any time assault vs .

Soone after this , there came onother Captaine from Saint Vincent , called Augraumart , which was brother to Anthonio , who was offended with him for selling the houses vnto vs : for the which cause Anthonio bid vs kill him , and tolde vs hee purposed to bring twelue Periagoes loaden with Carrebyes to kill vs , but wee found this Augraumart verie kinde vnto vs , and was willing to doe , or tell vs any thing wee desired him , for he taught vs to make a Grater , which he made of small sharpe flint stones beaten into a broade boord to grate our Cassada on , whereof we made our breade , and hee tolde vs , that Anthonio would cut our throates , and therefore bid vs kill him . This made vs doubtfull which to trust to .

We had certaine Articles drawne , which were to bée obserued , wherein Captaine Nicholas Sen-Iohns was Captaine : his brother Alexander Lieutenant , Miles Pet , and Philip Glascock were commaunders for the appoynting of our Watch : Iohn Rogers was our interpreter for the Spanish tongue , and was to buy and bargaine with the Indians for all the companie , both for commodities and victuals , Maister Garret , Master Tench , Francis Brace , and my selfe , were appointed to order the domesticall matters .

Carebie signifies in their language , A valiant man . All the occasions that we made whereby the Carrebyes should fall out with vs , was that one of our companie did sell a sworde vnto Captaine Anthonio , which was contrarie to the Articles wee had set downe , for none was ( vpon paine of seuere punishment ) to sel either Sworde , Dagger , or Hedge-bill : which when we knew , Alexander Sen-Iohns with a dozen more went to his house , and found him in his bed , which they call an Hamaco , with a little fire vnder him because he was not well , and the Sword standing by him , which yong Sen-Iohns tooke and brought forth to vs . This droue him into a great rage against vs , for neuer after that would he be familiar with vs .

The Carrebyes did weare for an ornament vpon the small of their naked aimes a foure-square plate , which maister Browne a Gold-finer told Captaine Sen-Iohns had three partes of it Golde , who asked the Carrebyes where they got it ? who presently pointed vs to a great Mountaine on the North-west part of the Island , whose toppe we might see from the place where wee dwelt : but Anthonio saide there was none . These contrarie tales made vs suspect some villanie , and that it was but a pollicie to drawe some of our companie thither , whereby they might the better deale with vs : for at home they d●rst not attempt any thing against vs , both for feare of our great Peece , and also wee would not suffer them to bring their bowes and arrowes within our Centinell . Yet our Captaine would not bee content till wee consented that hee should goe to the Mountaine , and tooke with him all sortes of commodities to bargaine with the Indians for Cloath , and he tooke old Browne the Gold-finer , and his sonne George Browne , Iohn Rogers , Maister Looking , the three sailers , whose names were , Iohn Fleming , Thomas Butler , Owen a Welchman , Iames Garret , & one Ioseph and Christopher , two Grocers , and one Maister Euans , with diuerse more , to the number of sixtéene .

And vpon A Monday they all imbarked in the Boat taking eight dayes victuall with them , promising to return betwixt that and the next Monday , leauing his brother Miles Pet , Philip Glascock , M. Garret , M. Tench , and my selfe , to rule at home . Vpon Tuesday & Wednesday the Indians did not come vnto vs with victuals as they had wont , which made vs after suspect that they were at the slaughter of our men at the Mount : & vpon Wednesday , my selfe with 3. more went to Anthonios house , where we found a great number of women , but not passing halfe a score men , making great preparation of victuals : some baking of Cassada , others roasting and boyling of great fishes and Turtles . I offred to buy some of them , but they refused and would not , neither would they looke of any commoditie we had , which made vs much maruell : for before that time they neuer denied vs : so we departed , & by the way we light of a narrow path wherein we trauelled a little , and all along the way did growe aboundance of Guiaua trees , whose fruit is as big as an Apple , and verie pleasant to eate : the greene ones are wholesome for the bloodie flixe .

Wee had not trauayled a Mile , but wee entered downe by a Thicket into a most pleasant Garden of Potatoes , which droue vs into greate admiration to beholde the manner of it , for it was made round like a Bower , encompassed with a greene Banke , so equally , that made vs thinke some Christians had made it for a strength to saue them from the Indians : and vppon the toppe thereof did growe a companie of the moste tallest Trées that euer I behelde , which did naturally growe so neere one to another , and so thicke from the roote to the toppe , that wee could not perceyue the skie through them . But following the path , wee perceyued it to passe through a narrow cut in the banke , where wee traueyled two or three miles further , passing through many goodly Gardens , wherein was aboundance of Cassada , Potatoes , Tobacco , Cotten-wool-trees , and Guiaua trees , in diuerse places as wee trauayled wee did maruaile to see the huge and great trées that were there : for most of them were fiue or sixe fathoms about , and fearing that wee shoulde bee benighted , wee returned the same way againe , with as much greene Tobacco , Potatoes , and Cassada , as wee could carrie , which did much content our men at home : for the Indians had not brought any victuals in three dayes before .

At night sixe of our men went to seeke for Turtles , and founde two verie great ones , but could not bring them home . For when they had turned them on their backes , it beganne to raine , thunder , and lighten so extreamly , that they had much a doe to get home themselues , and so it continued all night , with the moste horriblest thunder-claps that euer I heard , with lightning and raine as light as day , which caused vs to awake , and after prayers to fit all night by greate Fiers , drinking of Tobacc , with extraordinarie myrth amongest our selues , little foreseeing the daunger that befell to vs the next day .

Earely the next Morning , wee went to bring home our Turtles , and there wee founde a great number of Carrebyes on the shore , and three or foure Boates by them , roasting of lande Crabbes , for what purpose they were so gathered together wee know not , but least we should suspect them of any bad intent towardes vs , they willed vs to eate with them , and brought home our Turtles to our houses .

All that fore-noone wee kept good watch , for there was verie many which came both by Sea and land . and Augraumart and his father came with a great number of Indians , and brought in his hande a quarter of a Turtle , and a hundred Egges , and gaue them to young Sen-Iohns , and tolde him , that if hee would goe to his Brother Anthonius house , hee should haue greate store of victualls , and that hee should see his wife , and the more to perswade vs to goe , hee promised that wee should haue Hamacas for to sleepe in , which is the beds they vse .

Their Women dooth make them of Cotten that growes naturallye on the Trees , wereof they haue aboundance . Wee manye times made s●te vnto them for their Hamacas , because they would bee a meanes to saue vs from the Stings of curtaine . Flor called a Musketo , the which would so torment vs with their pay loued stings , and cause vs to swell as though we had the Leprosie , for they would sting through three payr● of Stockings , but they were not willing till now on the suddaine that wee should haue any . And because they were so kinde to vs , wee tooke them all into our houses , and were verie merrye and pleasant with them , and gaue them Aqua vitae which they delighted much in .

But Maister Tench ( who had wont to bee a curious corrector of vs in our merr●ments ) did show himselfe so extraordinarie pleasant , that hee fell a singing of Catches with the Carrebyes , and caused them in drinke carouses of Aqua vitae and water .

If wee had beene determined to haue kild them , wee might haue done it at that time with small danger , wee had a hundreth and aboue of them within out houses without eyther dowe or Arrowes . And when some of our companie , made such a motion as to put them to the Sworde ( for some of vs was halfe and more iealous of them , that they had done some mischiefe to our captaine , by reason one of our companie did say , that hee heard an Indian say , that the Captaine of the English had his hande cutte off at the Mount ) but this was not regarded , but was imputed that hee had misconstrued the Carrobyes language . Maister Tench was agaynst it , saying : God woulde not bee pleased with such a bloudie Act , agaynst such harmlesse people , and therefore willed vs not to doe it without they gaue the first occasion , wherein hee wronged himselfe and vs all , in seeking to saue the liues of them , who within three houres after most cruellye murthered him .

Before Dinner they all departed , but Augraumart and his father , who dined with vs . And presently after dinner , eighteene was chosen to goe to Anthonios house with Augraumart and his father , who had neither bowe nor arrow : onely his father had a Brasell sworde .

This they did least wee shoulde suspect their treacherie . But wee not fearing anie treason , because wee had beene often times well vsed there before , went on boldly ,

And some of our companie thought that the verie fight of our Peeces was sufficient to terrifie them , for attempting any villany against vs . And therfore did not ●egarde either to charge them , or to light our match .

In this carelesse and secure manner wee trauayled through a little necke of land which runnes farre into the Sea , and then wee entered vpon the sand , which was so extreame hote with the reflexion of the Sunne that wee were not able to trauaile apace , being loaden with our Peeces .

But Maister Alexander had put off his Doublet , and gaue his Boy his Peece , & went iesting & playing arme in arme with the two Carrebyes a good space before vs , vntil wee came to a point of Land a quarter of a mile from Anthonios house , and then hee called vs to come forward , but hee beeing light and coole , did keepe a greate way before vs still . And when hee least suspected daunger , Augraum●●t made as though hee would imbrace him , And suddenlye clasping holde with one hand on his Rapyer , and the other on his Dagger , and his Father with a great Brussell Sword , strooke him downe before we could come at him , but he recouered againe .

Then came the Arrowes so thicke out of the wood , that we could not get our match in the Cocke for pulling the Arrowes out of our bodyes : so amongst vs all was but fiue or sixe peeces discharged , which when the Indians saw giue fire , they did fall flat on the ground , shouting and crying with a moste hellish noyse , naming vs by our names when they hit vs .

Then wee retyred backe to a poynt of land , thinking there to haue fitted our peeces , and to haue giuen them a volley of shot , But there came another Ambush on our backes , and round about vs , insomuch that wee were inforced to forsake our peeces , and betake vs to our swords , which did much incourage them , for when they see wee could not hurt them with our peeces , they would come so neere vs , as though they purposed to make choyce in what place to hit vs , of some they shot in the faces , others through the Shoulders , and of others , they would naile their feete and the ground together .

Maister Budge and Robert Shaw ranne into the sea , and there were both drowned and kild with Arrowes , Maister Tench had a little Bucklet , with the which Bee did saue himselfe a long time , but at the last an Arrowe passed through both his legges , that hee could not goe , and stooping to pull it out , they kild him , and if anye of vs offered to runne at one or two of them , they would runne away , and of a suddaine twentie or thirtie would inclose vs , and still shoote Arrowes in them til they were downe , and then would they with a great Brassell sword beate them to death , and after would rifle them : Maister Kettleby did behaue himselfe verie gallantlye , for hee did not respect what arrowes hee receiued in his bodye , so hee could but reach one stroke at a Carrebye , but they were too nimble for vs in regard they were naked .

Yet neuerthelesse , wee runne through them all , thinking that if wee had escaped that ambush , there had béen no more to trouble vs , but as I was a pulling Arrowes out of his bodye , to the number of twentie at the least , there came the third ambush out of the woodes from whence came an Arrowe and hit him in the Breast , which hee perceiued would bee his death , for hee could not stand but as I hold him , but I was forced to let him goe , and shift to saue my selfe .

Then I ouer tooke young Sen-Iohns his bodye almost full of Arrowes , of which I pulled out a number , But what for the bloud that runne from him , and the extreame heate hee was in by his running , hee was not able to ouertake the re●t of our companye that was before .

And still the Carrebyes did gather ground vppon vs , and the Arrowes came thicke on euerie side .

Then hee willed mee to intreate them stay , and when I had ouertaken one , I caused him to stay , which hee was vnwilling to doe , for hee tolde mee his Sword would not come foorth of the Scabberd , so I tooke hold of the Hilts , and betwixt vs both pulled it out , but before wee had made an ende , these cruell and bloodye Carrebyes had encompassed yong Sen-Iohns yet ( to my griefe ) I did stand and beholde his ende , who before hee fell did make them run like so many Curres from a Lyon : for looke which way hee ran , they all fled before him : his body was so loaden with Arrowes , that he fell to the ground : and vpon one hand and knees , hee did keepe them from him with his Swoord , so much hee scorned so basely to dye at their handes .

We two were then the onely markes they aymed at : for hauing rifled young Seniohus , they pursued vs very hotly , which caused vs make haste to foure of our fellowes , who were entred into a narrow path , which leadeth through the woods , from the sandes to the Houses where wee dwelt : but there was in the path an other Ambush , which droue them backe to the sandes againe : and when they saw vs so hardly chased , they entred the path with vs againe .

The one side of the path was a high Mountayne , the other went downe a low Valley . The first foure tooke vp the Mountayn , by which meanes , they were a fayre marke for them to hitte , who dropped downe one after another .

All this time , neyther Harry which was M. Stokeleys man ( a Marchant now in Bucklersbery ) nor my selfe was shot : but as we thought desperatly to run through them in the narrowe path , there came an Arrowe and pearced quite through his head , of the which he fell suddenly , and I ran to lift him vp , but he was dead without speaking one word to mee at all .

Then came there two Arrowes and hitte mee in the back , the one directly against my hart , the other through my shoulder blade : so ( with my swoord in my hande ) I ran vpon them desperatly , thinking ( before I had died ) to haue ben the death of some of them . And in my running , I saw Captaine Anthony , with an Arrow in his Bow drawne against me , who stood vntill I came very néere him ( for he purposes to haue sped mée with that shot ) which when I sée come . I thought to put it by with my swoord , but it light on my hand , & passed thorow the handle of my sword , and nayled both together : but I continued running at him still ; and before he could nocke another , I made him and all the rest turne their backs , and run into the sands againe : which oportunity when I espyed , I leapt into the wood , downe to the valley , where I found a great Lake : And hearing them , with great showts and cry , which they vse in signe of tryumph and victory , pursue mee still , I leapt into the Lake , with my sword nayled to my hand , and two arrowes in my backe , and by the helpe of God swamme ouer , but with much adoo : for the further side was shallow water , but I waded in mud vp to the waste , which had almost spent me .

Now when I was ouer , I conuayd my selfe into the thickest parts of the wood , making all the haste I could , to giue my fellowes , which were at home , warning , lest the Indians should set on them vnawares : and in my going , I came into a path , and sought for a great trée , to sée , if by the ayme of the Iland , I could perceyue which way our houses stood . Then suddenly I heard a great noyse , which made me stand behind a tree , and there I saw two or three Indians goe by me , which I imagined were going to set on them at home : but it pleased God I got home , & gaue warning before their comming : so Miles Pet charged our great Peece , and al our men were in redines for their comming . Then presently , they all came in sight vpon the sands , whome we sent away ( by shooting of our great Peece ) & came no more in 3. daies : in which time , we fortified our selues with our Chests : And vpon Munday morning ( before wee had made an end of praier ) there came to the number of 13. or 14. C. Indians ( both by sea and land , ) & there beset vs round , making a noyse with their Hornes , and made most horrible cryes , which they no vse , the more to terryfle their enemies : and we did answere them agayne with the lyke cryes , deuyding our selues into 4 parts , according as we had made our Forts of our Chests , placing fiue in euery Forte , and thrée to the great Péece , where Miles Pett , my selfe and another was . Then they shot their Arrowes among vs as thicke as hayle , and lest they should follow in vpon vs and make vse of those Arrowes agayne , we gathered them all together , & made great fires with them before their faces , and many times they purposed to rush in vpon vs by multitudes , & to haue beaten vs downe with their Brazell Swoordes : But our great Peece was so mounted , that very readyly we could turne it which way we pleased , and looke which way their greatest company went , we let her flye amongst them . So perceiuing that they could not preuaile against vs , they put Cotten wooll vpon the end of their Arrowes , and put fire on them and shot at our Houses which were made on long Canes or Réedes , and suddenly tooke fire by reason of the heat of the day , & burned downe to the ground , fastning on our Chests which were our Forts , and burned all downe to the ground , the extreme heat of the flame did make our men forsake their Forts , and retyre behinde the great Péece , to the Sea-side , which incouraged the Carrabies mightily . M. William Kettleby lay close vnséene of the Indians vpon the sand , and with a long Peece hee would reach them 12. score paces , & galled them much : otherwise , they would haue come on the backes of vs by Sea , but he shot their Boats thorow and thorow , and scard them for entring that way . Now , when al our men were fled behind the great Peece , onely Philip Glascocke & Richard Garrat stood behinde the smoke , and marked where they purposed to enter , & eche of them discharged halfe a score times at them : At last , Philip Glascocke receiued an Arrowe in his head , and Richard Garrat one in his Brest , and two in his backe . And when the Indians saw that all were fled but them two , they purposed to enter through the smoake vpon vs : but in the entring , hée gaue a warning to Miles Pett to turne the Peece against the smoake : which presently we did , and let flye amongst them and droue them all backe , with most lamentable skrikes and cryes : no doubt but that shot was the death of many of them : for she was charged with stones . Then they blew their great Hornes , and all rety●ed backe to their Boates , without shooting one Arrowe at vs .