They had taken three prisoners, as I observed and these threebeing stout young fellows, they made them servants, and taught themto work for them, and as slaves they did well enough but they didnot take their measures as I did by my man Friday, viz. The Spaniards were in no small consternation at this sight and, asthey found that the fellows went straggling all over the shore,they made no doubt but, first or last, some of them would chop inupon their habitation, or upon some other place where they wouldsee the token of inhabitants and they were in great perplexityalso for fear of their flock of goats, which, if they should bedestroyed, would have been little less than starving them.So thefirst thing they resolved upon was to despatch three men awaybefore it was light, two Spaniards and one Englishman, to driveaway all the goats to the great valley where the cave was, and, ifneed were, to drive them into the very cave itself.Could theyhave seen the savages all together in one body, and at a distancefrom their canoes, they were resolved, if there had been a hundredof them, to attack them but that could not be done, for they weresome of them two miles off from the other, and, as it appearedafterwards, were of two different nations. After they were all gone, the Spaniards came out of their den, andviewing the field of battle, they found about twoandthirty mendead on the spot some were killed with long arrows, which werefound sticking in their bodies but most of them were killed withgreat wooden swords, sixteen or seventeen of which they found inthe field of battle, and as many bows, with a great many arrows.These swords were strange, unwieldy things, and they must be verystrong men that used them most of those that were killed with themhad their heads smashed to pieces, as we may say, or, as we call itin English, their brains knocked out, and several their arms andlegs broken so that it is evident they fight with inexpressiblerage and fury.We found not one man that was not stone dead foreither they stay by their enemy till they have killed him, or theycarry all the wounded men that are not quite dead away with them.
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