And entering on land,
they presently met with two or three of the country people. And Robert
Winterhie having in his hands a bow and arrows, went about to make a
shoot of pleasure, and, in his draught, his bowstring brake; which the
rude savages taking as a token of war, began to bend the force of their
bows against our company, and drove them to their shifts very narrowly.
In this port our General began to enquire diligently of the actions of
Master Thomas Doughty, and found them not to be such as he looked for,
but tending rather of contention or mutiny, or some other disorder,
whereby, without redress, the success of the voyage might greatly
have been hazarded. Whereupon the company was called together and made
acquainted with the particulars of the cause, which were found, partly
by Master Doughty's own confession, and partly by the evidence of the
fact, to be true. Which when our General saw, although his private
affection to Master Doughty, as he then in the presence of us all
sacredly protested, was great, yet the care he had of the state of the
voyage, of the expectation of her Majesty, and of the honour of his
country did more touch him, as indeed it ought, than the private respect
of one man. So that the cause being thoroughly heard, and all things
done in good order as near as might be to the course of our laws in
England, it was concluded that Master Doughty should receive punishment
according to the quality of the offence.
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