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the cltie of Cevola : where he found men that would 

 not let him enter into the towne, but shut him into a 



♦ great house which stoode without the citie, and 



straightway tooke all things from him which hee caried 

 to truck and barter with them, and certaine turqueses, 

 and other things which he had received of the Indians 

 by the way, and they kept him there all that night 

 without giving him meate or drinke, and the next day 

 in the morning this Indian was a thirst, and went out 

 of the house to drinke at a river that was neere at 

 hand, and within a little while after he saw Stephan 

 running away, and the people followed him, and slew 

 certaine of the Indians which went in his company. 

 And when this Indian saw these things, he hid him- 

 selfe on the banks of the river, and afterward crossed 

 the high way of the desert. The Indians that went 

 with me hearing these newes began incontinently to 

 lament, and I thought these heavie and bad newes would 

 cost mee my life, neither did I feare so much the losse of 

 mine owne life, as that I should not bee able to returne 



[III. 372.] to give information of the greatnessc of that Countrey, 

 where our Lord God might be glorified : and streightway 

 I cut the cords of my budgets which I carried with me 

 ful of merchandise for traffique, which I would not doe 

 till then, nor give any thing to any man, and began to 

 divide all that I carried with mee among the principall 

 men, willing them not to be afraid, but to goe forward 

 with me, and so they did. And going on our way, 

 within a dayes journey of Cevola wee met two other 

 Indians of those which went with Stephan, which were 

 bloody and wounded in many places : and assoone as they 

 came to us, they which were with mee began to make 

 great lamentation. These wounded Indians I asked for 

 Stephan, and they agreeing in all poynts with the first 

 Indian sayd, that after they had put him into the foresayd 

 great house without giving him meat or drinke all that 

 day and all that night, they tooke from Stephan all the 

 things which hee carried with him. The next day when 



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