WHAT SHALL BE DONE? 40S

could not, it seems, understand, But whatever it was, it had been
their business either to have concealed themselves as not to have
seen them at all, much less to have let the savages have seen that
there were any inhabitants in the place; or to have fallen upon
them so effectually as that not a man of them should have escaped,
which could only have been by getting in between them and their
boats. But this presence of mind was wanting to them, which
was the ruin of their tranquillity for a great while.

We need not. doubt but that the governor and the man with
him, surprised with this sight, ran back immediately and raised
their fellows, giving them an account of the imminent danger they
were all in; and they again as readily took the alarm. But it
was impossible to persuade them to stay close within where they
were, but that they must run all out to see how things stood.

While it was dark, indeed, they were well enough, and they
had opportunity enough for some hours to view them by the light
of three fires they had made at a distance from one another, What
they were doing they knew not, and what to do themselves they
knew not: for, first, the enemy were too many; and secondly
they did not keep together, but were divided into several parties,
and were on shore in several places.

The Spaniards were in no small consternation at this sight ;
and as they found that the fellows ran straggling all over the
shore, they made no doubt but, first or last, some of them would
chop in upon their habitation, or upon some other place where
they would see the token of inhabitants. And they were in great
perplexity also for fear of their flock of goats, which would have
been little less than starving them if they should have been
destroyed. So the first thing they resolved upon was to despatch
three men away before it was light, namely, two Spaniards and
one Englishman, to drive all the goats away to the great valley
where the cave was, and, if need were, to drive them into the very
cave itself.

Could they have seen the savages all together in one body, and
at any distance from their canoes, they resolved, if there had been
an hundred of them, to have attacked them; but that could not
be obtained, for they were some of them two miles off from the