DEPARTURE OF THE SAVAGES. . 487

mean Kriday’s father, were gone in a body to defend their bower,
and the corn and cattle that was kept there, in case the savages
should have roved over to that side of the country; but they did
not spread so far. With the seven Spaniards came one of the
three savages, who, as T said, were their prisoners formerly : and
with them also came the savage whom the Englishmen had left
bound hand and foot at the tree; for it seems they came that way,
saw the slaughter of the seven men, and unbound the eighth and
brought him along with them, where, however, they were obliged
to bind him again, as they had the two others who were left when
the third ran away.

The prisoners began now to be a burden to them; and they
were so afraid of their escaping that they were once resolving to
kill them all, believing they were wider an absolute necessity to
do so for their own preservation. Tflowever, the Spaniard governor
would not consent to it, but ordered, for the present, that they
should be sent out of the way to my old cave in the valley, and be
kept there with two Spaniards to guard them, and give them food
for their subsistence ; which was done, and they were bound there
hand and foot for that night.

When the Spaniards came, the two Englishmen were so en-
couraged that they could not satis{y themselves to stay any longer
there; but taking five of the Spaniards, and themselves, with four
muskets and a pistol among them, and two stout quarterstaves,
away they went in quest of the savages. And first they came to
the tree where the men Jay that had been killed; but it was easy
to sce that some more of the savages had been there, for they had
attempted to carry their dead men away, and had dragged two of
them a good way, but had given it over. From thence they
advanced to the first rising ground, where they stood and saw
their camp destroyed, and where they had the mortification still to
see some of the smoke; but neither could they here see any of the
savages. They then resolved, though with all possible caution, to
vo forward towards their ruined plantation. But a little before
they came thither, coming in sight of the sea-shore, they saw
plainly the savages all embarking again in their canoes, in order to
be gone.