{MN-3} _Eight French Slain._ {MN} Thus we continued till near _June_ that the _Tortles_ came in 1627, but the French being like to starve, sought to surprize us, and all the Cassado, Potatoes, and Tobacco we had planted, but we did prevent them. The 26th of _October,_ came in Captain _William Smith,_ in the _Hope-well,_ with some Ordnance, Shot and Powder, from the Earl of _Carlisle,_ with Captain _Pelham_ and thirty Men; about that time also came the _Plow,_ also a small Ship of _Bristow,_ with Captain _Warner's_ Wife, and six or seven Women more. * * * * * {MN} 1627. {MN} Upon the 25th of _November,_ the _Indians_ set upon the French, for some injury about their Women, and slew six and twenty _French_ Men, five _English,_ and three _Indians._ Their Weapons are Bows and Arrows, their Bows are never bent, but the string lies flat to the Bow; their Arrows a small Reed, four or five foot long, headed some with the poisoned Sting of the Tail of a Stingray, some with Iron, some with Wood, but all so poisoned, that if they draw but blood, the hurt is incurable. * * * * * {MN} _Three_ Indians _Slain._ {MN} The next day came in Captain _Charles Saltonstall,_ a young Gentleman, Son of Sir _Samuel Saltonstall,_ who brought with him good store of all Commodities to relieve the Plantation; but by reason some _Hollanders,_ and others had been there lately before him, who carried away with them all the Tobacco, he was forced to put away all his Commodities upon trust till the next crop; in the mean time he resolved there to stay, and imploy himself and his Company in planting Tobacco, hoping thereby to make a Voyage, but before he could be ready to return for _England,_ a _Hericano_ happening, his Ship was split, to his great loss, being sole Merchant and owner himself, notwithstanding forced to pay to the Governour the fifth part of his Tobacco, and for fraught to _England,_ three pence a pound, and nine pence a pound custom, which amounts together to more than threescore pound in the hundred pound, to the great discouragement of him and many others, that intended well to those Plantations. Nevertheless he is gone again this present year 1629, with a Ship of about three hundred Tuns, and very near two hundred People, with Sir _William Tuffton_ Governour for the _Barbadoes_, and divers Gentlemen, and all manner of Commodities fit for a Plantation. * * * * * {MN} _The arrival of many English Ships._