a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1577- 



them, and so attaine to some knowledge of those men 

 whom our Generall lost the yeere before. 



At our comming backe againe to the place where their 

 tents were before, they had remooved their tents further 

 into the said Bay or Sound, where they might if they 

 were driven from the land, flee with their boates into the 

 sea. We parting our selves into two companies, and 

 compassing a mountaine came suddenly upon them by 

 land, who espying us, without any tarying fled to their 

 boates, leaving the most part of their oares behind them 

 for haste, and rowed downe the bay, where our two 

 Pinnesses met them and drove them to shore : but if 

 they had had all their oares, so swift are they in rowing, 

 it had bene lost time to have chased them. 

 A fierce When they were landed they fiercely assaulted our 



assault of a men ^^ tne i r bowes and arrowes, who wounded three 

 of them with our arrowes : and perceiving themselves 

 thus hurt, they desperatly leapt off the Rocks into the 

 Sea, and drowned themselves : which if they had not 

 done, but had submitted themselves, or if by any meanes 

 we could have taken them alive (being their enemies 

 as they judged) we would both have saved them, & 

 also have sought remedy to cure their wounds received 

 at our hands. But they altogether voyd of humanity, 

 and ignorant what mercy meaneth, in extremities looke 

 for no other then death : and perceiving they should fall 

 into our hands, thus miserably by drowning rather desired 

 death then otherwise to be saved by us : the rest per- 

 ceiving their fellowes in this distresse, fled into the high 

 mountaines. Two women not being so apt to escape as 

 the men were, the one for her age, and the other being 

 incombred with a yong child, we tooke. The old wretch, 

 whom divers of our Saylers supposed to be eyther a 

 devill, or a witch, had her buskins plucked off, to see if 

 she were cloven footed, and for her ougly hew and 

 deformity we let her goe : the yong woman and the child 

 we brought away. We named the place where they were 

 slaine, Bloodie point : and the Bay or Harborough, Yorks 



