![]() ![]() The Spaniard governor having drawn his little body up together upona rising ground, Atkins, though he was wounded, would have had themmarch and charge again all together at once:but the Spaniardreplied, "Seignior Atkins, you see how their wounded men fight letthem alone till morning all the wounded men will be stiff and sorewith their wounds, and faint with the loss of blood and so weshall have the fewer to engage."This advice was good:but WillAtkins replied merrily, "That is true, seignior, and so shall Itoo and that is the reason I would go on while I am warm.""Well,Seignior Atkins," says the Spaniard, "you have behaved gallantly,and done your part we will fight for you if you cannot come on but I think it best to stay till morning:" so they waited.Ībout two days after this they had the farther satisfaction ofseeing three of the savages' canoes come driving on shore, and, atsome distance from them, two drowned men, by which they had reasonto believe that they had met with a storm at sea, which had oversetsome of them for it had blown very hard the night after they wentoff.However, as some might miscarry, so, on the other hand,enough of them escaped to inform the rest, as well of what they haddone as of what had happened to them and to whet them on toanother enterprise of the same nature, which they, it seems,resolved to attempt, with sufficient force to carry all beforethem for except what the first man had told them of inhabitants,they could say little of it of their own knowledge, for they neversaw one man and the fellow being killed that had affirmed it, theyhad no other witness to confirm it to, them. ![]()
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