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although our enemies were but few in number. In 

 this maner all our company came on shore with swim- 

 ming and with great difficultie, and if they had not 

 holpen one another, some of them had bene drowned. 

 Thus we landed, and within a while after those of the 

 other bote were come on land, the Indians betooke 

 themselves to flight, taking their way toward the 

 mountaines, whether they had sent their women, 

 children and goods : on the other side we pursued 

 them, & one of those Indians which came to assaile 

 the Generals boat, was slaine upon the strand, & two 

 or three others were wounded, and some said more. 

 While we pursued them in this maner our mastive 

 dogge Berecillo overtooke one of them not farre from 

 us (who because we were so wet could not run very 

 Theuseofmas- fast) and pulled him downe, having bitten him cruelly, 

 twes in the^ ^j^j doubtlesse he had held him till we had come, 

 Indians ^ unlesse it had happened that another of his companions 

 had not followed that Indian which the dogge had pulled 

 downe, who with a staffe which he had in his hands gave 

 the dogge a cruell blow on the backe, and without any 

 staying drew his fellow along like a Deere, and Berecillo 

 was faine to leave him for paine, neither had he scarse 

 taken the dogge off on him, but the Indian got up, and 

 fled so hastily towarde the mountaine, that within a short 

 while hee overtooke his fellowe which had saved him 

 from the pawes of the dogge, who (as it appeared) be- 

 tooke him lustily to his heeles, and thus they came 

 unto their fellowes which descended not downe to the 

 shore being about some twentie, and they were in all 

 about fiftie or sixtie. 

 [III. 418.] After we had breathed our selves a while, we viewed 



their houses where they stood, which were certaine 

 cottages covered with shrubs like broome and rosemary, 

 with certaine stakes pight in the ground ; and the 

 Generall willed us to march all together without dis- 

 persing of our selves, a little way up those mountaines, 

 to see if there were any water and wood, because we 



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