(He drops his shears and starts donning his battle regalia) (Nearby, Thomas eagerly grabs his gun and tries to aim) Ratcliffe: Shoot! (He takes aim and shoots, but in his over-emotion, he misfires, almost hitting Ratcliffe) Ratcliffe: Them, you idiot! (The settlers open fire. The warriors swiftly return the fire with a volley of arrows) (Among the topiary figures, Wiggins swiftly dons a coat resplendent with epaulets and sashes...) (...and grabs the helmet that Percy is hiding under, exposing Percy. Horrified of being in the line of fire, Percy disappears behind the topiary figure of Ratcliffe, his eyes peering out where Ratcliffe's eyes shall be) (Back to Ratcliffe who seizes a musket, takes aim and...) Ratcliffe: Where's that blasted Smith if I need him? (...and fires) (The bullet hits Namontack in the leg, giving him hard agony. He falls, toppling down into the clearing, gripping his leg in pain)
There is accuracy in the Settlers' immediate turn to violence against the natives. They did not hesitate to shoot them, believing them to be violent and dangerous. Tensions were especially high as in 1609 (the first arrival of the Virginia Company) was the beginning of the Anglo-Powhatan War-Ellie Irwin https://web.archive.org/web/20050413081941/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1007.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all