危城是亏了还是赚了　　They were now in as great concern as before, not knowing whatcourse to take, or how near the enemy might be, or in what number;so they resolved to go away to the place where their wives were, tosee if all was well there, and to make them easy. These were infright enough, to be sure; for though the savages were their owncountrymen, yet they were most terribly afraid of them, and perhapsthe more for the knowledge they had of them. When they came there,they found the savages had been in the wood, and very near thatplace, but had not found it; for it was indeed inaccessible, fromthe trees standing so thick, unless the persons seeking it had beendirected by those that knew it, which these did not: they found,therefore, everything very safe, only the women in a terriblefright. While they were here they had the comfort to have seven ofthe Spaniards come to their assistance; the other ten, with theirservants, and Friday's father, were gone in a body to defend theirbower, and the corn and cattle that were kept t

: for Ibelieve there are a thousand canoes, and you may see them paddlealong, for they are coming towards us apace."

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　　When the Indians saw what they were about, some of them camerunning out of the woods, and coming as near as they could to ourmen, kneeled down and cried, "Oa, Oa, Waramokoa," and some otherwords of their language, which none of the others understoodanything of; but as they made pitiful gestures and strange noises,it was easy to understand they begged to have their boats spared,and that they would be gone, and never come there again. But ourmen were now satisfied that they had no way to preserve themselves,or to save their colony, but effectually to prevent any of thesepeople from ever going home again; depending upon this, that ifeven so much as one of them got back into their country to tell thestory, the colony was undone; so that, letting them know that theyshould not have any mercy, they fell to work with their canoes, anddestroyed every one that the storm had not destroyed before; at thesight of which, the savages raised a hideous cry in the woods,which our people heard plain enough, after which they
　　The Spaniards were greatly surprised at this sight and perfectly ata loss what to do. The Spaniard governor, as it happened, was withthem, and his advice was asked, but he professed he knew not whatto do. As for slaves, they had enough already; and as to killingthem, there were none of them inclined to do that: the Spaniardgovernor told me they could not think of shedding innocent blood;for as to them, the poor creatures had done them no wrong, invadednone of their property, and they thought they had no just quarrelagainst them, to take away their lives. And here I must, injustice to these Spaniards, observe that, let the accounts ofSpanish cruelty in Mexico and Peru be what they will, I never metwith seventeen men of any nation whatsoever, in any foreigncountry, who were so universally modest, temperate, virtuous, sovery good-humoured, and so courteous, as these Spaniards: and asto cruelty, they had nothing of it in their very nature; noinhumanity, no barbarity, no outrageous passions; and yet all oft