war, and our friends were
all in great fear.

As they came at dusk, and at the East side of the isle, our men had the
whole night to think of what they should do. And as they knew that the
most safe way was to hide and lie in wait, they first of all took down
the huts which were built for the two good men, and drove their goats to
the cave, for they thought the wild men would go straight there as soon
as it was day, and play the old game.

The next day they took up their post with all their force at the wood,
near the home of the two men, to wait for the foe. They gave no guns to
the slaves, but each of them had a long staff with a spike at the end of
it, and by his side an axe. There were two of the wives who could not be
kept back, but would go out and fight with bows and darts.

The wild men came on with a bold and fierce mien, not in a line, but
all in crowds here and there, to the point were our men lay in wait for
them. When they were so near as to be in range of the guns, our men shot
at them right and left with five or six balls in each charge. As the foe
came up in close crowds, they fell dead on all sides, and most of those
that they did not kill were much hurt, so that great fear and dread came
on them all.

Our men then fell on them from three points with the butt end of their
guns, swords, and staves, and did their work so well that the wild men
set up a loud shriek, and flew for their lives to the woods and hills,
with all the speed that fear and swift feet could help them to do. As
our men did not care to chase them, they got to the shore where they had
come to land and where the boats lay.

But their rout was not yet at an end, for it blew a great storm that day
from the sea, so that they could not put off. And as the storm went on
all that night, when the tide came up, the surge of the sea drove most
of their boats so high on the shore, that they could not be got off save
with great toil, and the force of the waves on the beach broke some of
them to bits.

At break of day, our men went forth to find them, and when they saw the
state of things, they got some dry wood from a dead tree, and set their
boats on fire. When the foe saw this, they ran all through the isle with
loud cries, as if they were mad, so that our men did not know at first
what to do with them, for they trod all the corn down with their feet,
and tore up the vines just as the grapes were ripe, and did a great deal
of harm.

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