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againe with my company, to see if any one of them 

 would go thither, but I found them unwilling as at 

 the first, and they layd against me greater inconveniences. 

 Then I called the old man to see if he would give me 

 any people to goe with me, & victuals to travel through 



A desert, that wildernes, but he laid before me many inconveni- 

 ences & dangers, which I might incurre in that voyage, 

 shewing me the danger that there was in passing by a 



Cumana. lord of Cumana, which threatned to make warre upon 

 them, because his people had entred into the others 

 countrey to take a stagge, and that I should not therefore 

 depart thence without seeing him punished. And when 

 I replied that in any wise I must needes goe to Cevola, 

 he willed me to surcease from that purpose, for they 

 looked that that lord without al doubt would come to 

 annoy them, & that therefore they could not leave their 

 countrey naked to goe with me, and that it would be 

 better, that I would make an end of that warre betweene 

 them, and that then I might have their company to 

 Cevola. And upon this point we grew to such variance, 

 that we began to grow into choler, and in a rage he would 

 have gone out of the boat, but I stayed him, and with 

 gentle speeches began to pacific him, seeing that it 

 imported mee much to have him my friend : but for 

 all my courtesies which I shewed him, I could not alter 

 him from his mind, wherein he stii remained obstinate. 

 In this meane while I sent a man away unto my ships 

 to give them knowledge of the journey that I had deter- 

 mined to make. After this I prayed the old man that 

 he would fetch him backe againe, because I had deter- 

 mined, that seeing I saw no meanes to be able to go 

 to Cevola, & because I would stay no longer among 

 those people, because they should not discover me, and 

 likewise because I meant in person to visit my ships, 

 with determination to returne againe up the river, carying 

 with me other companions, & leave there some which I 

 had sicke, and telling the olde man and the rest that 

 I would returne, and leaving them satisfied the best I 



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