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any thing that they shoote at. Shortly after they had 

 left us stript (as aforesayd) we thought it best to devide 

 our selves into two companies, and so being separ- 

 Anthony ated, halfe of us went under the leading of one Anthony 

 Godard. Qodard, who is yet a man alive, and dwelleth at this 

 instant in the towne of Plimmouth, whom before we 

 chose to be captaine over us all, and those which went 

 under his leading, of which number I Miles Philips was 

 one, travailed Westward that way which the Indians 

 with their hands had before pointed us to go. The 

 other halfe went under the leading of one John Hooper, 

 whom they did choose for their captain, & with the 

 David company that went with him, David Ingram was one, 

 Ingram. ^^^ ^^^ tooke their way and travelled Northward, and 

 shortly after, within the space of two dayes, they were 

 againe incountered with the savage people, and their 

 captaine Hooper and two more of his company were 

 slaine : then againe they divided themselves, and some 

 held on their way still Northward, and other some, 

 knowing that we were gone Westward, sought to meet 

 with us againe, as in truth there was about the number 

 of 25 or 26 of them that met with us in the space of 

 foure dayes againe, and then we began to reckon 

 amongst our selves, how many wee were that were set 

 on shore, and we found the number to be an hundred 

 and foureteene, whereof two were drowned in the sea, and 

 eight were slaine at the first incounter, so that there 

 remained an hundred and foure, of which 25 went West- 

 ward with us, and 52 to the North with Hooper and 

 Ingram : and as Ingram since hath often told me, there 

 were not past three of their company slaine, and there 

 were but sixe and twenty of them that came againe to 

 us, so that of the company that went Northward, there 

 is yet lacking, and not certainely heard of, the number 

 of three and twenty men. And verely I doe thinke 

 that there are of them yet alive, and married in the 

 said countrey, at Cibola, as hereafter I purpose (God 

 willing) to discourse of more particularly, with the reason 



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