the weather was very fevere, this being 

 the month of June, the depth of winter 

 in this part of the world. The Indians 

 now flocked thick about us, and feemed 

 to have great compaffion for us, as our 

 cacique related to them what part he 

 knew of our hiilory. They knew not 

 what countrymen we were, nor could 

 our guide inform them ; for he had often 

 afked us if we were French, Dutch, or 

 Englifh, the only nations he had ever 

 heard of befides the Spaniards. We al- 

 ways anfwered we were from Grande 

 Bretagne, which he could make nothing 

 of ; for we were afraid, if he knew us 

 to be Englifh, as he had heard that na- 

 tion was at war with the Spaniards, he 

 never would have conduced us to Chiloe. 

 Thefe good-natured cornpaffionate 

 creatures feemed to vie with each other 

 who fhould take the moft care of us. 

 They made a bed of fheep-fkins clofe to 

 the fire, for captain Cheap, and laid him 



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