what they intended to do; and in a word to command them off, assuring them that if they staid till daylight they would have a hundred thousand men about their ears:  I say, I left them and went among those flying people, taking only two of our men with me; and there was indeed a piteous spectacle among them:  some of them had their feet terribly burnt with trampling and running through the fire, others their hands burnt; one of the women had fallen down in the fire, and was almost burnt to death before she could get out again; two or three of the men had cuts in their backs and thighs, from our men pursuing, and another was shot through the body, and died while I was there.

I would fain have learnt what the occasion of all this was, but I could not understand one word they said, though by signs I perceived that some of them knew not what was the occasion themselves.  I was so terrified in my thoughts at this outrageous attempt, that I could not stay there, but went back to my own men:  I told them my resolution, and commanded them to follow me, when in the very moment came four of our men, with the boatswain at their head, running over the heaps of bodies they had killed, all covered with blood and dust, as if they wanted more people to massacre, when our men hallooed to them as loud as they could halloo, and with much ado one of them made them hear, so that they knew who we were, and came up to us.

As soon as the boatswain saw us he set up a halloo, like a shout of triumph, for having, as he thought, more help come; and without bearing to hear me, “Captain,” says he, “noble captain, I am glad you are come; we have not half done yet:  villains! hell-hound dogs!  I will kill as many of them as poor Tom has hairs upon his head.  We have sworn to spare none of them; we will root out the very name of them from the earth.”  And thus he ran on, out of breath too with action, and would not give us leave to speak a word.

At last, raising my voice, that I might silence him a little, “Barbarous dog!” said I, “what are you doing?  I won’t have one creature touched more upon pain of death.  I charge you upon your life to stop your hands, and stand still here, or you are a dead man this minute.”

“Why, Sir,” says he, “do you know what you do, or what they have done?  If you want a reason for what we have done, come hither;” and with that he shewed me the poor fellow hanging upon a tree, with his throat cut.

I confess I was urged then myself, and at another time should have been forward enough; but I thought they had carried their rage too far, and thought of Jacob’s words to his sons Simeon and Levi, “Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel.”  But I had now a new task upon my hands; for when the men I carried with me saw the sight as I had done, I had as much to do to restrain them, as I should have had with the others; nay, my nephew himself fell in with them, and told