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and fo full, that fome funk with all the people in them; above all, moft pitiful and lamentable were the cries of fome of our women, many cafting themfelves into the Sea choofing rather to venture to be taken up by fome Boar, or at worft to be Drowned, then to be taken and to be cruelly Butchered by the Indians, We wondering at this iuddain alteration, not knowing the caufe of it, at laft perceived the Arrows to come out thick from the Wood from behind the Tree?, and thereby guefled at the truth that the Barbarians were Mutined. The uprore lafted not half an hour, for prefently our Admiral fhot off two or three Peeces'of Ordnance and fent a Company of Souldiers to ihore to Guard it and our people with their Muskets ; which was well and fuddainly performed, and all the Indians foon difperfed. Three of our Friers who had remained on the Land, our Cock-boat brought them to us with more of our Pafíengers, arhong whom one Frier John Dc la Cueva, was dangercufly fliot and wounded in one of his Shoulders ; this Frier had been earneft with me to ftay on iliore with him, which I refufed, and io efcaped that cruel and fiery onfet of the Indians. Bcfides thofe that were Drowned and taken up at ihore (which were fifteen perions) two Jefuites were found dead upon the Sand, three more dangeroufly wounded, three Paffengers like- wife ilain, ten wounded, befides three more of the Fleet which could never be found a live or dead, and were thought to have been found in the Wood by the Indians n and to have been Murthered by them. Our Mulatto Le»ü came not according to his word ; but in his ftead a iuddain Army of treacherous Indians, which gave us motive enough to think, that either' Lersfis himfelf had difcovered the Jefuites Plot to cake him away with his Wife and Children or that the Indians fufpe&ing it by his talk with us, had made him confefs iv And certainly this was the ground of their Mutiny j for whereas Lewis before had faid, that he would know the Jefuites by their black Coats, itfeems he had well defenbed them above all the reft unto the Indians) for (as it was after well obieryed^ moft of their I'.v .. : ^ . , Arrows
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