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It was no time now to skulk behind a palisade At all hazards, that tide frost us weafter the of ates I drove h the heart of an Indian ould have opposedforward Perhaps thirty ca A party of the savages in our midst interposed We set upon theht like very devils drove theateway Behind us ild clalish, the whooping of the savages; before us a rush that hting, then the Indians wavered, broke, and fled Like sheep we drove thee of the forest, into which they plunged Into that ambush we cared not to follow, but fell back to the palisade and the town, believing, and with reason, that the lesson had been taught The strip of sand was streith the dead and the dying, but they belonged not to us Our dead numbered but three, and we bore their bodies with us

Within the palisade we found the English in sufficiently good case Of the score or more Indians cut off by us from their mates and penned within that death trap, half at least were already dead, run through with sword and pike, shot doith the muskets that there was now tiainst the wall, were fast ainst us; we cared not to hter, but they had taken the initiative They fought with the courage of despair, striving to spring in upon us, striking when they could with hatchet and knife, and through it all talking and laughing, ainst the English, what references to the hunting grounds to which they were going They were brave men that we slew that day

At last there was left but the leader,--unharain he had striven to close with so with his fellows Behind hih all were old soldiers and servants of the colony, gentlemen none of whom had come in later than Dale,--Rolfe, West, Wynne, and others We were swordsmen all When in his desperation he would have thrown hi hith, and at last West sent the knife in the dark hand whirling over the palisade Some one had shouted to the musketeers to spare him