A.D. 



1539- 



The Spani- 

 ards use mas- 

 tives in their 

 warres against 

 the Indians. 

 Reade more 

 hereof cap. 12. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



aided us was grievously wounded with 3 arrowes, so 

 that by no meanes we could get him from us : this 

 mastive was wounded in the first assalt when the Indians 

 came upon us, who behaved himselfe very wel, & greatly 

 aided us; for he set upon them, and put 8 or 10 of them 

 out of array, & made them run away, leaving many 

 arrowes behind them : but at length (as I have said) he 

 was so wounded, that by no meanes we could get him 

 to goe from us to set any more upon the Indians, & 

 the other two mastives did us more harme then good : 

 for when they went against them, they shot at them 

 with their bowes, and we received hurt and trouble in 

 defending them. The Captaines legge when he waxed 

 cold was so swolne, that we lapped it up in a wollen 

 cloth, and he halted much of it : and while the Indians 

 thus stood still, one part of them beganne to dance, sing, 

 and shout, and then they began all to lade themselves 

 with stones, and to put their arrowes into their bowes, 

 and to come downe toward us verie resolutely to assalt 

 us, and with great out-cries they beganne to fling stones 

 and to shoot their arrowes. Then Francis Preciado 

 turned him to the Captaine and said : Sir, these Indians 

 know or thinke, that we be affeard of them, & in trueth 

 it is a great fait to give them this incouragement, it were 

 better for us resolutely to set upon them with these dogs, 

 & to assalt them on this hill, that they may know us 

 to be no dastards, for they be but Indians and dare 

 not stande us ; and if we can get their Fort upon the 

 hill, God will give us victory in all the rest. The 

 Captaine answered, that he liked well of the motion, and 

 that it was best so to doe, although for any further 

 pursuit up the hill, he thought we were to take another 

 course. By and by Francis Preciado getting his target 

 on his arme, and his sword in his hand, ranne unto the 

 other side of the valley, which on that part was not very 

 steepe, crying S. lago, upon them my masters, and after 

 him leapt Haro, Tere9a, Spinosa, and a Crossebow-man 

 called Montanno, and after them followed the Captaine, 



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