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We sheathed our swords and listened to the Governor's few earnest words of thankfulness and of recognition of this or that round of the dead, to place sentinels, to bring the town into order, to determine what policy we should pursue, to search for ways by which we ht be yet alive in the plantations above and below us

We could not go through the forest where every tree ht hide a foe, but there was the river For the lish had been built, like mine at Weyanoke, very near to the water I volunteered to lead a party up river, and Wynne to go with another toward the bay But as the council at the Governor's was breaking up, and as Wynne and I were hurrying off to reat noise fro down the stream

It was so, and there were in them whitewomen and children One boat had coh, and two from Martin-Brandon; they held all that were left of the people A woman had in her lap the body of a child, and would not let us take it from her; another, with a half-severed arm, crouched above a an that strange procession that lasted throughout the afternoon and night and into the next day, when a sloop calish were in force there to stand their ground, although their loss had been heavy Hour after hour they ca them, the panic-stricken folk, whose homes were burned, whose kindred were slain, who had themselves escaped as by a miracle Many were sorely wounded, so that they died e lifted thehter hurts Each boatload had the same tale to tell of treachery, surprise, and fiendish butchery Wherever it had been possible the English had ave way and finally retired to the forest Contrary to their wont, the Indians took few prisoners, but for thetheir spite upon the senseless corpses A e Thorpe, ould think no evil, was killed and his body ht and loved And Nathaniel Poas dead, and four others of the Council, besides many more of name and note There were many women slain and little children