"The first three whom you observe, at the head of the train, to be chained together, are prisoners of war.

As soon as the ships that are behind you arrived, the news was dispatched into the inland country; when one of the petty kings immediately assembled his subjects, and attacked a neighbouring tribe.

The wretched people, though they were surprized, made a formidable resistance, as they resolved, almost all of them, rather to lose their lives, than survive their liberty.

The person whom you see in the middle, is the father of the two young men, who are chained to him on each side.

His wife and two of his children were killed in the attack, and his father being wounded, and, on account of his age, _incapable of servitude_, was left bleeding on the spot where this transaction happened." "With respect to those who are now passing us, and are immediately behind the former, I can give you no other intelligence, than that some of them, to about the number of thirty, were taken in the same skirmish.
Their tribe was said to have been numerous before the attack; these however are _all that are left alive_.