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 ouer 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 Iackman, being the Masters mate, ashore
with a convenient number, for that he could best guide them to the place,
they marched ouer 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 remoued. Notwithstanding, our men which marched
vp into the countrey, passing ouer two or three mountaines, by chance
espied certaine tents in a valley vnderneath them neere vnto a creeke by
the Sea side, which because it was not the place where the guide had bene
the night before, they iudged them to be another company, and be setting
them about, determined to take them if they could. [Sidenote: The Sauages
haue boats of sundry bignes.] But they having quickly descried our
companie, launched one great and another smal boat, being about 16 or 18
persons, and very narrowly escaping, put themselues to sea. [Sidenote: The
Englishmen pursue those people of that countrey. The swift rowing of those
people.] Whereupon our souldiers discharged their Caliuers, and followed
them, thinking the noise therof being heard to our boats at sea, our men
there would make what speede they might to that place. [Sidenote: The
bloody point. Yorkes sound.] And thereupon indeede our men which were in
the boates (crossing vpon them in the mouth of the sound whereby their
passage was let from getting sea roome, wherein it had bene impossible for
vs to ouertake them by rowing) forced them to put themselues ashore vpon a
point of land within the sayd sound (which vpon the occasion of the
slaughter there, was since named The bloody point) whereunto our men so