A.D. 



1540. 



Jn Inchanter. 



[in- 439-] 



This River 

 ran much far- 

 ther up then 

 he had tra- 

 velled. 



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content him, I caused a draught of certaine things to be 

 made for him. The next day I entred betweene certaine 

 very high mountaines, through which this River passeth 

 with a streight chanel, and the boats went up against 

 the streame very hardly for want of men to draw the 

 same. Here certaine Indians came and told me, that in 

 the same place, there were certaine people of Cumana, 

 and among the rest an enchanter, who enquired which 

 way we would passe ; & they telling him that we meant 

 to passe by the River, he set certaine canes on both 

 sides thereof, through which wee passed, without re- 

 ceiving any kinde of domage which they intended against 

 us. Thus going forward I came unto the house of the 

 olde man which was in my company, and here I caused 

 a very high Crosse to be set up, wherupon I engraved 

 certaine letters to signifie that I was come thither : and 

 this I did, that if by chance any of the people of the 

 generall Vasquez de Coronado should come thither, they 

 might have knowledge of my being there. At length 

 seeing I could not attaine to the knowledge of that 

 which I sought for, I determined to returne backe unto 

 my ships. And being ready to depart there arrived two 

 Indians, which by meanes of the interpreters of the old 

 man, told me that they were sent to me, and that they 

 were of Cumana, and that their Lord could not come 

 himselfe, because he was farre from that place, but de- 

 sired me to signifie unto him what my pleasure was. I 

 told them, that I wished that he would alwayes imbrace 

 peace, and that I was comming to see that countrey, but 

 being inforced to returne backe downe the River I could 

 not now doe it, but that hereafter I would returne, and 

 that in the meane season they should give that Crosse 

 unto their Lorde, which they promised me to do, and 

 they went directly to cary him that Crosse with certaine 

 feathers which were on the same. Of these I sought to 

 understand what people dwelt upward upon the bankes 

 of the River, which gave me knowledge of many people, 

 and told me that the River went farre more up into the 



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