condoled the bodies they saw lie dead, that I never heard anything like it
before or since.

We stood stock still after we had fired, to load our guns again, and
finding they did not stir from the place we fired among them again; we
killed about nine of them at the second fire; but as they did not stand so
thick as before, all our men did not fire, seven of us being ordered to
reserve our charge, and to advance as soon as the other had fired, while
the rest loaded again; of which I shall speak again presently.

As soon as we had fired the second volley, we shouted as loud as we could,
and the seven men advanced upon them, and, coming about twenty yards
nearer, fired again, and those that were behind having loaded again with
all expedition, followed; but when they saw us advance, they ran screaming
away as if they were bewitched.

When we came up to the field of battle, we saw a great number of bodies
lying upon the ground, many more than we could suppose were killed or
wounded; nay, more than we had bullets in our pieces when we fired; and we
could not tell what to make of it; but at length we found how it was, viz.,
that they were frighted out of all manner of sense; nay, I do believe
several of those that were really dead, were frighted to death, and had no
wound about them.

Of those that were thus frighted, as I have said, several of them, as they
recovered themselves, came and worshipped us (taking us for gods or devils,
I know not which, nor did it much matter to us): some kneeling, some
throwing themselves flat on the ground, made a thousand antic gestures, but
all with tokens of the most profound submission. It presently came into my
head, that we might now, by the law of arms, take as many prisoners as we