(vnto whom in our Generall his absence, and his Lieutenant Master Beast, al
the rest were obedient) went a shore, determining to see, if by faire means
we could either allure them to familiarity, or otherwise take some of 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 remooued their tents further into the said Bay or Sound, where
they might if they were driuen from the land, flee with their boates into
the sea. We parting our selues into two companies, and compassing a
mountaine came suddenly vpon them by land, who espying vs, without any
tarrying fled to their boates, leauing the most part of their oares behind
them for haste, and rowed downe the bay, where our two Pinesses met them
and droue them to shore: but if they had had all their oares, so swift are
they in rowing, it had bene lost time to haue chased them.

[Sidenote: A fierce assault of a few.] When they were landed they fiercely
assaulted our men with their bowes and arrowes, who wounded three of them
with our arrowes; and perceiuing themselues thus hurt, they desperatly
leapt off the Rocks into the Sea, and drowned themselues: which if they had
not done, but had submitted themselues, or if by any meanes we could haue
taken them aliue (being their enemies as they iudged) we would both haue
saued them, and also haue sought remedy to cure their wounds receiued at
our hands. But they altogether voyd of humanity, and ignorant what mercy
meaneth, in extremities looke for no other then death: and perceiuing they
should fall into our hands, thus miserably by drowning rather desired death
then otherwise to be saued by vs: the rest perceiuing 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 diuers of our