MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 

 which maketh them to seeme very ougly and terrible 

 to beholde. These people doe keepe warres against 

 the Spaniards, of whom they have bene oftentimes very 

 cruelly handled : for with the Spaniards there is no 

 mercy. They perceiving us at our first comming on 

 land, supposed us to have bene their enemies, the bor- 

 dering Spaniards, and having by their forerunners des- 

 cried what number we were, and how feeble and weake 

 without armour or weapon, they suddenly according to 

 their accustomed maner, when they encounter with any 

 people in warlike sorte, raised a terrible and huge crie, Oar men as- 

 and so came running fiercely upon us, shooting off their ^^^ , ^/. ^ 

 arrowes as thicke as haile, unto whose mercy we were 

 constrained to yeeld, not having amongst us any kind of 

 armour, nor yet weapon, saving one caliver, and two old 

 rustie swords, whereby to make any resistance, or to 

 save our selves : which when they perceived, that wee 

 sought not any other then favour and mercie at their 

 handes, and that we were not their enemies the Spaniards, 

 they had compassion on us, and came and caused us 

 all to sit down : and when they had a while surveyed, 

 and taken a perfect view of us, they came to all such 

 as had any coloured clothes amongst us, and those 

 they did strip starke naked, and tooke their clothes 

 away with them, but those that were apparelled in 

 biacke they did not meddle withall, and so went their 

 wayes, and left us without doing us any further hurt, 

 onely in the first brunt they killed eight of our men. Eight of our 

 And at our departure, they perceiving in what weake ^^^ ^^^^^^' 

 case we were, pointed us with their hands which way 

 we should go to come to a towne of the Spaniards, 

 which as we afterwards perceived, was not past ten 

 leagues from thence, using these words : Tampice, 

 Tampice, Christiano, Tampice Christiano, which is as 

 much (we thinke) as to say in English, at Tampice 

 you shall find the Christians. The weapons that they 

 use are no other but bowes and arrowes, and their [III. 475.] 

 arme is so good, that they very seldome misse to hit 



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