A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER, 44

 

“PLANTED JUST BEMIND A SMALL THICKET

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OF WUSILES

  

killed by the gods with thunder and
lightning, and could see nobody that

hurt them; but William Atkins staying

 

to load again, discovered the cheat.
Some of the savages, who were at a dis-
tance, spying them, came upon them

behind, and though Atkins and his men fired at them also, two or

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three times, and killed about twenty, retiring as fast as they could,

vet they wounded Atkins himself, and killed one of his fellow

nelishmen with their arrows, as they did afterwards one Spaniard,
and one of the Indian slaves who came with the women. This
slave was a most gallant fellow, and fought most desperately, kill-
ing five of them with his own hand, having no weapon but one

of the armed staves and a hatchet.