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pay him extraordinary refpeft \ but in two 

 or three nights, thefe Indians, being inde- 

 pendent of the Spaniards, and living 

 fomewhere to the fouthward of our 

 Chono guide, left us to proceed on our 

 journey by ourfelves. 



The firft night we lay at an ifland def- 

 titute of all refreshment ; where having 

 found fome (helter for our boat, and 

 made ourfelves a fire, we flept by it. 

 The next night we were more unfortu- 

 nate, though our wants were increafing ; 

 for having run to the weftward of Mon- 

 trofs ifland, we found nofhelter for the 

 barge ; but were under the neceffity of 

 lying upon our oars, fuffering the moil 

 extreme pangs of hunger. The next day 

 brought us to the bottom of a great bay, 

 where the Indian guide had left his 

 family, a wife and two children, in a 

 hut. Here we flaid two or three days, 

 during which we were conftantly em- 

 ployed 



