Yardes long, and in
other some wee haue seene of foure and twentie. [In]
In some places of the countrey one onely towne belongeth to the
gouernment of a 'Wiroans' or chiefe Lorde; in other some two or three,
in some sixe, eight, & more; the greatest 'Wiroans' that yet we had
dealing with had but eighteene townes in his gouernmet, and able to make
not aboue seuen or eight hundred fighting men at the most: The language
of euery gouernment is different from any other, and the farther they
are distant the greater is the difference.
Their maner of warres amongst themselues is either by sudden surprising
one an other most commonly about the dawning of the day, or moone light;
or els by ambushes, or some suttle deuises: Set battels are very rare,
except if fall out where there are many trees, where eyther part may
haue some hope of defence, after the deliuerie of euery arrow, in
leaping behind some or other.
If there fall out any warres betwee vs & them; what their fight is
likely to bee, we hauing aduantages against them so many maner of waies,
as by our discipline, our strange weapons and deuises els; especially by
ordinance great and small, it may be easily imagined; by the experience
we haue had in some places, the turning vp of their heeles against vs in
running away was their best defence.
