According to his account, the company from the fleet roamed over
much of the land during the day, finding fair meadows and goodly
trees, with streams of fresh water here and there bespeaking fish
in abundance.
Nothing was seen or heard to disturb our people until the signal
had been given for all to go on board the boats, that they might
return to the ships, and then it was that a number of naked, brown
men, creeping upon their hands and knees like animals, with bows
and arrows held between their teeth, came out suddenly from amid
the foliage to the number, as Nathaniel declared, of not less than
an hundred.
While the white men stood dismayed, awaiting some order from those
who chose to call themselves leaders, the savages shot a multitude
of arrows into the midst of the company, wounding Captain Gabriel
Archer in both his hands, and dangerously hurting one of the seamen.
Captain Gosnold gave command for the firearms to be discharged,
whereupon the savages disappeared suddenly, and without delay our
people returned to the fleet.
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