Cloud Easton, Respone to Gatta's exerpt from Bradford on pg.18

Having just reread the entry of Bradford's view toward native Americans in Gatta's book bring back an odd question to me. I understand that the Europeans had a superiority complex toward the locals, and that many felt that in no ways did the natives compare to their might, but it bothers me to believe that to some degree they didn't feel fear. Gatta explains this as the Europeans masked their fear of the peoples and the land by believing they were above them. While in some regards this makes sense, I am rather surprised that no mention of overt fearfulness was displayed. Within one year of the Mayflower landing half the people were dead, who would not be scared of those odds?