or burnt.  All this while they never fired a gun, lest the people should awaken faster than they could overpower them.  But the fire awakened them fast enough, which obliged our fellows to keep together in bodies.  By this time the whole town was in a flame, yet their fury rather increased, calling out to one another to remember Tom Jeffery.  The terrible light of this conflagration made me very uneasy, and roused my nephew the captain, and the rest of his men, who knew nothing of the matter.  When he perceived the dreadful smoke, and heard the guns go off, he readily concluded his men were in danger; he therefore takes another boat, and comes ashore himself, with thirteen men well armed.  He was greatly surprised to see me and only two men in the boat, but more so when I told him the story:  but though I argued with him, as I did with the men, about the danger of the voyage, the interests of the merchants and owners, and the safety of the ship, yet my nephew, like the rest, declared, that he would rather lose the ship, his voyage, his life and all, than his men should be lost for want of help; and so away he went.  For my part, seeing him resolved to go, I had not power to stay behind.  He ordered the pinnace back again for twelve men more, and then we marched directly as the flame guided us.  But surely never was such a scene of horror beheld, or more dismal cries heard, except when Oliver Cromwell took Drogheda in Ireland, where he neither spared man, woman, nor child.

The first object, I think, we met with, was the ruins of one of their habitations, before which lay four men and three woman killed, and two more burnt to death among the fire, which was now decaying.  Nothing could appear more barbarous than this revenge; none more cruel than the authors of it.  As we went on, the fire increased, and the cry proceeded in proportion.  We had not gone much farther, when we beheld three naked women, followed by sixteen or seventeen men, flying with the greatest swiftness from our men, who shot one of them in our sight.  When they perceived us, whom they supposed also their murderers, they set up a most dreadful shriek, and both of them swooned away in the fright.  This was a sight which might have softened the hardest heart; and in pity we took some ways to let them know we would not hurt them, while the poor creatures with bended knees, and lifted up hands, made piteous lamentations to us to save their lives.  I ordered our men not to hunt any of the poor creatures whatsoever; but being willing to understand the occasion of all this, I went among these unhappy wretches, who neither understood me, nor the good I meant them.  However being resolved to put an end to this barbarity, I ordered the men to follow me.  We had not gone fifty yards before we came up with the boatswain, with four of our men at his heels, all of them covered with blood and dust, and in search of more people to satiate their vengeance.  As soon as we saw them, we called out, and made them