A.D. 



1539- 



A sudde?i 

 as salt of the 

 Indians with 

 stones, arrows, 

 and staves. 



[III. 409.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



came upon us very secretly and covertly, for one came 

 by the great valley through which the water ranne which 

 we tooke, and the other came by a part of that great 

 hill which we had ascended to see the lake, and all of 

 them came so covertly, that our Centinels could neither 

 see nor heare them ; and wee had not perceived them, 

 if a souldier by chance lifting up his eyes had not sayde, 

 Arme, Arme, my maisters, for many Indians come upon 

 us. When we heard this the Captaine leapt up in a great 

 rage, because the guards were changed out of their place : 

 and with his sword and target, being followed by a 

 souldier, whose name was Haro, and afterward by 

 the rest, he and the said souldier went toward a little 

 gate of certaine stones, whither the rest of us were to 

 follow him : for if the Indians had gotten that place from 

 us, we should have incurred great danger, and the 

 greatest part of us had like to have beene slaine, and 

 none could have escaped but such as by chance could 

 have leapt into the boates, and the tide went so high, 

 that none could be saved but such as were most excellent 

 swimmers. But at length the Captaine bestirred himselfe 

 very nimbly, using all celeritie that was possible. There- 

 fore when he and Haro had wonne the gate, the rest of 

 the souldiers gate up after them, and the Captaine and 

 Haro turned themselves to the Indians and made head 

 against them, and the Indians assailed them with such 

 numbers of stones, arrowes, & javelins (which was a 

 very strange thing) that they brake in pieces the target 

 which the Captaine had on his arme, and besides that 

 wounded him with an arrow in the bending of his knee, 

 and though the wound was not great, yet was it very 

 painefull unto him. While they thus stood to withstand 

 their assalt, they strooke Haro which was on the other 

 side so forcibly with a stone, that they threw him flat 

 upon the ground : and by and by another stone lighted 

 upon him which shivered his Target, and they hit the 

 Captaine with another arrow, and shot him quite through 

 one of his eares. Another arrow came and strooke a 



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