“Over this army, which though little, was of great intrepidity, I was constituted chief general and commander:  and knowing Will Atkins, though exceedingly wicked, yet a man of invincible courage, I gave him the power of commanding under me:  he had six men with their muskets loaded with six or seven bullets a-piece, and were planted just behind a small thicket of bushes, as an advanced guard, having orders to let the first pass by; and then, when he fired into the middle of them, making a nimble retreat round a part of the wood, and so come in the rear of the Spaniards, who were shaded by a thicket of trees:  for though the savages came on with the fierceness of lions, yet they wanted the subtility of foxes, being out of all manner of order, and straggling in heaps every way:  and, indeed, when Will Atkins, after fifty of the savages had passed by, had ordered three of his men to give fire, so great was their consternation, to see so many men killed and wounded, and hear such a dreadful noise, and yet knew not whence it came, that they were frightened to the highest degree:  and when the second volley was given, they concluded no less but that their companions were slain by thunder and lightning from Heaven.  In this notion they would have continued, had Will Atkins and his men retired, as soon as they fired, according to order:  or had the rest been near them, to pour in their shot continually, their might have been a complete victory obtained:  but staying to load their pieces again, discovered the whole matter.  They were perceived by some of the scattering savages at a distance, who let fly their arrows among them, wounded Atkins himself, and killed his fellow Englishman, and one of the Indians taken with the women.  Our party did not fail to answer them, and in their retreat killed about twenty savages.  Here I cannot but take notice of our poor dying slave, who, tho’ stopt from his retreat by a fatal arrow, yet with his staff and hatchet, desperately and gallantly assailed his pursuers, and killed five of the savages, before his life submitted to a multiplicity of wounds.  Nor is the cruelty or malice of the Indians to be less remarked, in breaking the arms, legs, and heads of the two dead bodies, with their clubs and wooden swords, after a most wretched manner.  As Atkins retreated our party advanced, to interpose between him and the savages:  but after three vollies, we were obliged to retreat also:  for they were so numerous and desperate, that they came up to our very teeth, shot their arrows like a cloud, and their wounded men, enraged with cruel pain, fought like madmen.  They did not, however, think fit to follow us, but drawing themselves up in a circle, they gave two triumphant shouts in token of victory, though they had the grief to see several of their wounded men bleed to death before them.