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-with a long cloak on, a tye wig without 

 any curl, and a fpado of immenfe length 

 by his fide. He received us in great 

 ftate and form ; but as we had no inter- 

 preter, we underftood little or nothing of 

 the queftions he afked us. He ordered 

 a table to be fpread for us wiih cold 

 ham and fowls ; which we three only fat 

 down to, and in a fliort time difpatched 

 more than ten men with common appe- 

 tites would have done. It is amazing, 

 that our eating to that excefs we had 

 done, from the time we firft got amongft 

 thefe kind Indians, had not killed us ; 

 we were never fatisfied, and ufed to take 

 all opportunities, for fome months after, 

 of filling our pockets when we were not 

 ieen 5 that we might get up t wo or three times 

 in the night to cram ourfelves. Captain 

 Cheap ufed to declare, that he was quite 

 alhamed of himfelf. After fupper, the 

 corregidore carried us to the jefuits col- 

 lege, attended by the foldiers, and all the 



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