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rest of the Indians ; namely that they should live 

 in peace, and should leave off warres, and should 

 continue alwayes good friendes together : he answered 

 that of long time they had continued in warres with their 

 neighbours, but that from thence forward he would 

 command his people that they should give food to all 

 strangers that passed through his kingdome, and that 

 they should doe them no kinde of wrong, and that if 

 any nation should come to invade him, he said he 

 would tell them howe I had commanded that they 

 should live in peace, and if they refused the same, he 

 would defend himselfe, and promised me, that he would 

 never goe to seeke warre, if others came not to invade 

 him. Then I gave him certaine trifles, as well of the 

 seedes which I brought, as of the hens of Castile, where- 

 with he was not a litle pleased. And at my departure 

 I caryed certaine of his people with me, to make friend- 

 ship betweene them and those other people which dwelt 

 above the River : and here the interpreter came unto me, 

 to crave leave to returne home ; and I gave him certaine 

 gifts wherewith he departed greatly satisfied. 

 Coama. The next day I came to Coama, and many of them 

 knew me not, seeing me clad in other aparrel, but the 

 old man which was there as soone as he knew me leapt 

 into the water, saying unto me. Sir, lo here is the man 

 which you left with me, which came forth very joyfull 

 & pleasant declaring unto me the great courtesies which 

 that people had shewed him, saying that they had stroven 

 together who should have him to his house, and that it 

 was incredible to thinke what care they had at the rising 

 of the Sunne to hold up their hands and kneele before 

 the Crosse. I gave them of my seedes, and thanked 

 them hartily for the good entertainement which they 

 had shewed my man, and they besought me that I 

 would leave him with them, which I granted them 

 untill my return, and he stayed among them very wil- 

 lingly. Thus I went forward up the River, taking that 

 olde man in my companie, which told mee, that two 



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