AMIAS PRESTON AND GEORGE SOMMERS ad. 



1595- 

 the Indians way called The unknowen way. In our 

 march we came to divers Indians houses, which we never 

 hurt, but passed by and left them untouched : but the 

 Indians were all fled into the woods, and other places, we 

 know not whither. We marched until it was night over 

 such high mountaines, as we never saw the like, and such 

 a way as one man could scarse passe alone. Our general 

 being in the forward, at length came whereas a river de- 

 scended downe over the mountaines, and there we lodged 

 all that night. Here in going this way, we found the 

 Spanish governours confession to be true : for they had 

 baricadoed the way in divers places with trees, & other 

 things in such sort, that we were driven to cut our way 

 through the woods by Carpenters, which we caried with 

 us for that purpose. The next day being the 29 of May 

 early in the morning we set forward to recover the tops 

 of the mountaines: but (God knoweth) they were so 

 extreeme high and so steep-upright, that many of our 

 souldiers fainted by the way : and when the oflicers came 

 unto them, and first entreated them to goe, they answered, 

 they could goe no further. Then they thought to make 

 them goe by compulsion, but all was in vaine: they 

 would goe a little and then lie downe, and bid them kill 

 them, if they would, for they could not, nor would not 

 goe any further. Whereby they were enforced to depart, 

 & to leave them there lying on the ground. To be short, 

 at length with much ado we gat the top of the moun- 

 taines about noone : there we made a stand til all the 

 company was come up, and would have stayed longer to 

 have refreshed our men : but the fogge and raine fell so 

 fast, that wee durst not stay. So wee made hast to 

 descend towards the towne out of the fogge and raine : 

 because that in these high mountaines by report of the 

 Spaniards themselves, it doeth almost continually raine. 

 Assoone as we were descended downe neere halfe the way 

 to the towne the raine ceased, and going downe a little 

 further, on the toppe of a hill we saw the towne not farre 

 distant from us. Here we all cleared our muskets : and 



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