with them. At our first landing they seemed as though they would fight with us; but perceiving us begin to march with our shot toward them, they turned their backs and fled. Then Manteo their countryman called to them in their own language, whom, as soon as they heard, they returned, and threw away their bows and arrows, and some of them came unto us, embracing and entertaining us friendly, desiring us not to gather or spill any of their corn, for that they had but little. We answered them, that neither their corn nor any other thing of theirs should be diminished by any of us, and that our coming was only to renew the old love that was between us and them at the first, and to live with them as brethren and friends. Which answer seemed to please them well, wherefore they requested us to walk up to their town, who there feasted us after their manner, and desired us earnestly, that there might be some token or badge given them of us, whereby we might know them to be our friends when we met them anywhere out of the town or island. They told us farther, that for want of some such badge, divers of them were hurt the year before, being found out of the island by Mr. Lane's company, whereof they shered us one, who at that very instant lay lame, and had lain of that hurt ever since; but they said, they knew our men mistook them, and hurt them instead of Wingina's men, wherefore they held us excused.

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them concerning the people of Secotan, Aquascogoc, and Pomeioc, willing them of Croatoan to certify the people of those towns, that if they would accept our friendship, we would, willingly receive them again, and that all unfriendly dealings past on both parts should be utterly forgiven and forgotten. To this the chief men of Croatoan answered, that they would gladly do the best they could, and within seven days bring the Wiroances and chief governors of those towns with them to our governor at Roanoke, or their answer. We also understood of the men of Croatoan, that our man, Mr. Howe, was slain by the remnant of Wingina's men dwelling then at Dasamonguepeuk, with whom Wanchese kept company; and also we understood by them of Croatoan, that the fifteen Englishmen left at Roanoke the year before, by Sir Richard Greenville, were suddenly set upon by thirty of the men of Secotan, Aquascogoc, and Dasamonguepeuk, in manner following.

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They conveyed themselves secretly behind the trees, near the houses where our men carelessly lived; and having perceived that of those fifteen they could see but eleven, two of those savages appeared to the eleven Englishmen, calling to them by friendly signs, that but two of their chief men should come unarmed to speak with those two savages, who seemed also to be unarmed. Wherefore, two of the chief of our Englishmen went gladly to them; but while one of those savages traiterously embrac

ed one of our men, the other with his sword of wood, which he had secretly hidden under his mantle, struck him on the head, and slew him, and presently the other eight-and-twenty savages shewed themselves. The other Englishman perceiving this, fled to his company, whom the savages pursued with their bows and arrows, so fast that the Englishmen were forced to take the house, wherein all their victual and weapons were; but the savages forthwith set the same on fire, by means whereof our men were forced to take up such weapons as came first to hand, and without order to run forth among the savages, with whom they skirmished above an hour. In this skirmish another of our men was shot into the mouth with an arrow, where he died; and also one of the savages was shot into the side by one of our men with a wild-fire arrow, whereof he died presently. The place where they fought was of great advantage to the savages, by means of the thick trees, behind, which the savages, through their nimbleness, defended themselves, and so offended our men with their arrows, that our men, being some of them hurt, retired fighting to the water side, where their boat lay, with which they fled toward Hatteras. By that time they had rowed but a quarter of a mile, they espied their four fellows coming from a creek thereby, where they had been to fetch oysters; these four they received into their boat, leaving Roanoke, and landed on a little island on the right hand of our entrance

into the harbour of Hatteras, where they remained a while, but afterward departed, whither as yet we know not.

Having now sufficiently dispatched our business at Croatoan, the same day we departed friendly, taking our leave, and came aboard the fleet at Hatteras.

August 8th, the governor having long expected the coming of the Wiroances of Pomeioc, Aquascogoc, Secotan, and Dasamonguepeuk, seeing that the seven days were past, within which they promised to come in, or to send their answers by the men of Croatoan, and no tidings of them heard; being certainly also informed by those men of Croatoan, that the remnant of Wingina's men, which were left alive, who dwelt at Dasamonguepeuk, were they which had slain George Howe, and were also at the driving of our eleven Englishmen from Roanoke, he thought to defer the revenge thereof no longer. Wherefore the same night about midnight he passed over the water, accompanied with Captain Stafford and twenty-four men, whereof Manteo was one, whom we took with us to be our guide to the place where those savages dwelt, where he behaved himself toward us as a most faithful Englishman.

The next day, being August 9th, in the morning, so early that it was yet dark, we landed near the dwelling-place of our enemies, and very secretly conveyed ourselves through the woods, to that

side where we had their houses between us and the water; and having espied their fire, and some sitting about it, we presently set on them. The miserable souls herewith amazed, fled into a place of thick reeds, growing fast by, where our men perceiving them, shot one of them through the body with a bullet, and therewith we entered the reeds, among which we hoped to acquit their evil doing toward us. But we were deceived, for those savages were our friends, and were come from Croatoan to gather the corn and fruit of that place, be cause they understood our enemies were fled immediately after they had slain George Howe, and for haste had left all their corn, tobacco, and pompions, standing in such sort, that all had been devoured of the birds and deer, if it had not been gathered in time. But they had like to have paid dearly for it; for it was so dark, that they being naked, and their men and women apparalled all so like others, we knew not but they were all men; and if that one of them, which was a Wiroance's wife, had not had a child at her back, she had been slain instead of a man, and as hap was, another savage knew Mr. Stafford, and ran to him, calling him by his name, whereby he was saved. Finding ourselves thus disappointed of our purpose, we gathered all the corn, peas, pompions, and tobacco, that we found ripe, leaving the rest unspoiled, and took Menatonan's wife, with the young child, and the other savages with us, over the water to Roanoke. Although the