ishment will prevent but hanging, and these they would should redeeme their owne 16. or 18. thus braving us to our doores, we desired the president, and Captaine Martin, that afternoone to sally upon them, that they might but know, what we durst to do, and at night mand our Barge, and burnt their Townes, and spoiled, and destroyed, what we could, but they brought our men, and freely delivered them; the president released one, the rest we brought well guarded, to Morning and Evening prayers. Our men all in armes, their trembling feare, then caused them to much sorrow, which till then scoffed, and scorned at what we durst doe, the Counsell concluded, that I should terrifie them with some torture, to know if I could know their intent, the next day I bound one in hold, to the main Mast, and presenting sixe Muskets with match in the cockes, forced him to desire life, to answere my demaunds he could not: but one of his Comovodos was of the counsell of Paspahegh, that could satisfie me: I releasing him out of sight, I affrighted the other, first with the rack, then with Muskets, which seeing, he desired me to stay, and hee would confesse to this execution, Maister Scrivener came, his discourse was to this effect, that Paspahegh, the Chickahamaniar, Youghtanum, Pamaunka, Mattapanient, and Kiskiack. These Nations were altogether a hunting that tooke me, Paspahegh, and Chicahamanya, had entended to surprise us at worke, to have had our tools: Powhatan, and al his would seeme friends, till Captaine Nuports returne, that he had againe his man, which he called Namontack, where with a great feast hee would so enamor Captain Nuport and his men, as they should ceaze on him, and the like traps would be laied for the rest This trap for our tooles, we suspected the chiefe occasion was foure daies before Powhatan had sent the boy he had to us, with many Turkies to Maister Scrivener, and mee, understanding I would go up into his Countries to destroy them, and he doubted it the more, in that I so oft practised my men, whose shooting he heard to his owne lodging, that much feared his wives, and children; we sent him word, we entended no such thing, but only to goe to Powhatan, to seeke stones to make Hatchets, except his men shot at us, as Paspahegh had told us they would, which if they did shoote but one arrowe, we would destroy them, and least this mischiefe might happen, sent the boy to acquaint him thus much, and request him to send us Weanock, one of his subiects for a guide, the boy he returned backe with his Chest, and apparell, which then we had given him, desiring another for him, the cause was, he was practising with the Chikahamanias, as the boy suspectod some villanie, by their extraordinary resort, and secret conference, from whence they would send him. The boy we keepe, now we would send him many messengers, and presents, the guide we desired he sent us, and withall requested us to returne him, either the boy, or some other, but none he could have, and that day these Indians were apprehended, his sonne with others that had loaded at our Fort, returned, and being out of the Fort, rayled on me, to divers of our men, to be enemies to him, and to the Chikamanias, not long after Weanock that had bin with us for our guide, whom wee kept to have conducted us in another iourney, with a false excuse returned, and secretly after him, Amocis the Paspaheyan, who alwaies they kept amongst us for a spie, whom the better to avoide suspition, presently after they came to beate away: these presumptions induced me to take any occasion, not onely to try the honesty of Amocis, the spie, but also the meaning of these cunning trickes of their Emperour of Powhatan; whose true meaning Captaine Martin most confidently pleaded. The confession of Macanoe, which was the counseller of Paspahegh; first I, then, Maister Scrivener, upon their severall examinations, found by them all confirmed, that Paspahegh, and Chickahammania did hate us, and intended some mischiefe, and who they were that tooke me, the names of them that stole our tooles, and swords, and that Powhatan received them, they all agreed: certaine vollies of shot we caused to be discharged, which caused each other to thinke that their fellowes had beene slaine. Powhatan understanding we detained certaine Salvages, sent his Daughter, a child of tenne yeares old, which not only for feature, countenance, and proportion, much exceedeth any of the rest of his people, but for wit, and spirit, the only Nonpariel of his Country: this hee sent by his most trustie messenger, called Rawhunt, as much exceeding in deformitie of person, but of a subtill wit, and crafty understanding, he with a long circumstance, told mee, how well Powhatan, loved and respected mee, and in that I should not doubt any way of his kindnesse, he had sent his child, which he most esteemed, to see me, a Deere, and bread, besides for a present desiring me that the Boy might come againe, which he loved exceedingly, his litle Daughter hee had taught this lesson also not taking notice at all of the Indeans that had beene prisoners three daies, till that morning that she saw their fathers and friends come quickly, and in good tearmes to entreate their libertie. : Opechankanough, sent also unto us, that for his sake, we would release two that were his friends, and for a token sent me his shooting Glove, and Bracer, which the day our men was taken upon, separating himselfe from the rest a long time, intreated to speak with me, where in token of peace, he had preferred me the same now all of them having found their peremptorie conditions, but to increase our malice, which they seeing us begin to threaten to destroy them, as familiarly as before, without suspition, or feare, came amongst us, to begge libertie for their men: In the afternoone they being gone, we guarded them as before to the Church, and after prayer, gave them to Pocahuntas, the Kings Daughter, in regard of her fathers kindnesse in sending her after having well fed them, as all the time of their imprisonment, we gave them their bowes, arrowes, or what else they had, and with much content, sent them packing: Pocahuntas, also we requited, with such trifles as conteuted her, to tel that we had used the Paspaheyans very kindly in so releasing them. The next day we had suspition of some other practise for an Ambuscado, but perfectly wee could not discover it, two daies after a Paspaheyan, came to shew us a glistering Minerall stone: and with signes demonstrating it to be in great aboundance, like unto Rockes, with some dozen more, I was sent to seeke to digge some quantitie, and the Indean to conduct me: but suspecting this some trick to delude us, for to get some Copper of us, or with some ambuscado to betray us, seeing him falter in his tale, beeing two miles on our way, led him ashore, where abusing us from place to place, and so seeking either to have drawne us with him into the woods, or to have given us the slippe: I shewed him Copper, which I promised to have given him, if he had performed his promise, but for 1 } his scoffing and abusing us, I gave twentie lashes with a Rope, and his bowes and arrowes, bidding him shoote if he durst, and so let him goe. 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