a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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to the whole company there, they determined forthwith 

 to go in hand with the matter. Hereupon Captaine 

 Yorke with the master of the Aide and his mate (who 

 the night before had bene at the tents, and came over 

 from the other side in the Michael with him) being 

 accompanied with the Gentlemen and souldiors to the 

 number of thirty or forty persons in two small rowing 

 Pinnasses made towards the place, where the night before 

 they discovered the tents of those people, and setting 

 Charles Jackman, being the masters Mate, ashore with a 

 convenient number, for that he could best guide them to 

 the place, they marched over land, meaning to compasse 

 them on the one side, whilest the Captaine with his 

 boates might entrap them on the other side. But landing 

 at last at the place where the night before they left them, 

 they found them with their tents removed. Notwith- 

 standing, our men which marched up into the countrey, 

 passing over two or three mountaines, by chance espied 

 certaine tents in a valley underneath them neere unto a 

 creeke by the Sea side, which because it was not the 

 place where the guide had bene the night before, they 

 judged them to be another company, and besetting 

 The Savages them about, determined to take them if they could. But 

 have boats of ^ey having quickly discried our companie, lanched one 

 ' great & another smal boat, being about 1 6 or 1 8 persons, 

 and very narrowly escaping, put themselves to sea. 

 The English Wherupon our souldiers discharged their Calivers, and 



men pursue followed them, thinking the noise therof being heard 



those people of ' & *& 



that countrey. to our boats at sea, our men there would make what 



speede they might to that place. And thereupon indeede 



our men which were in the boates (crossing upon them 



in the mouth of the sound whereby their passage was let 



from getting sea roome, wherein it had bene impossible 



The swift for us to overtake them by rowing) forced them to put 



rowing of those themselves ashore upon a point of land within the sayd 



P eo P e ' sound (which upon the occasion of the slaughter there, 



The bloody was since named The bloody point) whereunto our men 



P° mU so speedily followed, that they had little leisure left them 



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