brought hither from other islands for this was like � wise an abode of the they had soon an instance of the courage and ferocity of this race while ihe boat was ou shore a with a few indians two of whom were females came from a distant part of the island and a point of land arrived suddenly in fill view of the ships astonished at what to them must have been so awful and supernatural an apparition they remained for a long time gazing in mute so completely were they in that the boat returning from the shore had stole close upon them before they perceived it seizing their they now attempted to escape but though their light the surface of the waves the steady sweep of the oar gained upon them and the boat being and the land cut off their retreat seeing flight was v n they caught their bows and arrows and turned fiercely upon their the women fought as well as the men one of them appeared to be treated with obedience and reverence as if she were their queen she was accompanied by her a young man martyr strongly made terrible and and a lion s face they plied their bows with vigour and rapidity the were covered with their two of them were quickly wounded and an arrow was sent with such force by one of the as to pass through and through a to avoid this fire which was rendered more formidable from an apprehension that tlie arrows might be poisoned the ran their boat violently upon the � � and it the fierce savages however con to fight while in the water gathering themselves oc p l life and voyages of sunken rocks and g their arrows as as though they had been upon firm land it was with the utmost difficulty they could be overcome and taken one of them was with a lance so that he died after being brought to the ships and the queen s son was wounded when on board the could not but admire their spirit and fierce their hair was long and coarse their eyes encircled with paint so as to give them a hideous expression they had bands of cotton bound firmly above and below the muscular parts of the arms and legs so as to cause them to swell to a � size which was regarded by them as a great beauty a custom which prevailed among various tribes of the new world though in chains and in the power of their enemies they still retained a frowning brow and an air of defiance peter martyr who often went to see them when in spain declares from his own experience and that of others who accompanied him that it was impossible to look at them without a certain inward sensation of horror nature having endowed them with so menacing and terrible an aspect this sensation was doubtless caused in a great measure from the idea of their being in this according to the same writer the indians used poisoned arrows and one of the died within a few days of a he had received from a female warrior pursuing his voyage soon came in sight of a great cluster of islands of various shapes and appearances some and covered with forests but the greater part naked and rising into wild mountains many p martyr l a c ind c ms let of dr t � � t ii of the rocks of which were of a bright colour and others of a white these with his usual vivacity of imagination supposed to contain mines of rich and precious stones the islands lying close together with the sea beating and tossing roughly in the narrow channels which divided them rendered it dangerous to enter among them with the large ships keeping off therefore in the broad sea sent in a small with sails to which returned with the report that there were upwards of fifty islands but apparently to the largest of this group gave the name of and he called the others the eleven thousand the examination of them to some future time he continued his course until he arrived one evening in sight of a great island covered with beautiful forests and with fine it was called by the natives but he gave it the name of st and it is the game since known by the name of this was the native island of most of the who had fled to the ships for refuge from the according to their accounts it was fertile and and under the dominion of a single its inhabitants were not given to and possessed but few they were subject to frequent from the who were their enemies they had become warriors therefore in own defence using the bow and arrow and the war club and in their with their foes they retorted upon them their own devouring their prisoners in sheer revenge p martyr l letter of dr vol i life and voyages of after for a whole day along the of this island they in a bay at the west end which with fish on landing they found an indian village situated as usual round a common square like a market place with one large and well built house from hence a spacious road led to the sea side having fences on each side of fruitful gardens at the end of the road was a kind of terrace or look out neatly constructed with and overhanging the water the whole place had an air of neatness and ingenuity superior to the ordinary of the natives and appeared to be the abode of some important all however was silent and deserted not a human being was to be seen during the time that they remained at the place the natives had fled and concealed themselves at the sight of the after remaining here 