A NOCTURNAL ATTACK, 44a

 

    

 

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MAVING DRAWN LIS LITRE BODY UP TOGKTIHKR UPON A RISING QROUND,

which they had a fair opportunity to do, for one of the two KEnelish-
men, in whose quarter it was where the fight began, led them
round between the woods and sea-side westward, and then turn-
ing short south, they came so near where the thickest of them
lay, that before they were seen or heard eight of them fired in
among them, and did dreadful execution upon them. In half a
minute more eight others fired after them, pouring in their small
shot in such a quantity that abundance were killed and wounded ;
and all this while they were not able to see who hurt them, or
which way to fly.

The Spaniards charged again with the utmost, expedition, and
then divided themselves into three bodies, and resolved to fall in
among them all together. ‘They had in each body eight persons
~-that is to say, twenty-four, whereof were twenty-two men, and
the two women, who, by the way, fought desperately.

They divided the firearms equally in each party, and so of the
halberds and staves. They would have had the women keep
back, but they said they were resolved to die with their husbands !
Maving thus formed their little army, they marched out from
among the trees, and came up to the teeth of the enemy, shout-