AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1539- 



Indians stood still, and being come unto him, wee went 



faire and softly to our boates, and got into them at our 



ease, without any thronging, and thence we came 



aboord our ship. 



The Indians seeing us thus gone aboord came downe 



to the strand where the brooke of water was, and called 



unto us to come foorth with our boates, and to come on 



shore, and to bring our beades, and that they would give 



us of their mother of pearles : but we being now set at 



[III. 414.] dinner made no account of them : whereupon they 



beganne to shoote arrowes at the ship, and although they 



fell neere us, yet they did not reach us. In the meane 



season certaine mariners went out in the boat, to wey 



the anker, whereupon the Indians seeing them comming 



towards them, & bringing them nothing, they 



beganne in scorne to shew them their buttockes, making 



signes that they should kisse their bums : and these 



seemed to be those that came last. The Generall 



seeing this, commanded a musket to be once or twise 



shot off, and that they should take their just ayme. 



They seeing these shot to be made readie, some of 



them rose and went to shoot their arrowes at our 



mariners, which were gone to weigh the ankers, then the 



Generall commanded the great ordinance speedily to 



be shot off, whereupon three or foure bullets were 



discharged, and we perceived that we had slaine one 



of them, for we assuredly saw him lye dead upon the 



shore ; and I thinke some of the rest were wounded. 



They hearing this noyse, and seeing him dead ranne 



away as fast as ever they could, some along the shore, 



and some through the vallies, dragging the dead 



Indian with them, after which time none of them 



appeared, save ten or twelve, which peeped up with 



their heads among those rocks ; whereupon another 



piece of ordinance was discharged aloft against the 



place where they were, after which time we never saw 



any more of them. 



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