"The Caribs, as soon as they saw that flight did not profit them, with much boldness laid hands on their bows, the women as well as the men.

And I say with much boldness, because they were no more than four men and two women, and ours more than twenty-five, of whom they wounded two.

To one they gave two arrow-shots in the breast, and to the other one in the ribs.

And if we had not had shields and tablachutas, and had not come up quickly with the boat and overturned their canoe, they would have shot the most of our men with their arrows.

And after their canoe was overturned, they remained in the water swimming, and at times getting foothold, for there were some shallow places there.