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Twenty-Three Men Landed, Armed With Muskets, And Marched Up Towards Four
Or Five Houses; But Had Hardly Got A Musketshot Shot From The Boats,
When Above A Thousand Indians Fell Upon Them From An Ambush, With Such
Weapons As They Had, And Slew Them All Within Our Sight.
Our boats
waited long, to see if any of our men would return; but seeing no hope
to recover any of them, they returned to the ship with, the sorrowful
news that all who had landed were slain.
This was a most lamentable
affair, as we had scarcely as many men remaining as could weigh our
anchor.
We went next day over to the island of St Mary, where we found our
admiral, who had arrived there four days before us, and had departed
from the island of Mocha the day after we came from thence, the
general, master, and all the officers having been wounded on
shore.[51] We were much grieved for our reciprocal misfortunes, so that
the one bemoaned the other, yet were glad that we had come together
again. My good friend Timothy Shotten of London was pilot of this ship.
At this island of St Mary, which is in lat. 37 deg. S, [36 deg. 50'] near the
coast of Chili, it was concluded to take every thing into one of the
ships, and burn the other; but the new captains could not agree which of
the ships to burn, so that this agreement was not executed.
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