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all other sorts both simple and mixt, and it was unto 

 us a great good passing of the time to beholde them, 

 besides the reliefe we found by killing some store of 

 them with our fowling pieces ; without which, having 

 little or no bread, and lesse drinke, but onely the 

 thicke and troubled water of the river, we had beene 

 in a very hard case. 



Our olde pilot of the Ciawani (whom, as I sayd before, 

 wee tooke to redeeme Ferdinando) tolde us, that if we 

 would enter a branch of a river on the right hand 

 with our barge and wheries, and leave the galley at 

 anker the while in the great river, he would bring 

 us to a towne of the Arwacas, where we should 

 finde store of bread, hennes, fish, and of the countrey 

 wine ; and perswaded us, that departing from the 

 galley at noone, we might returne yer night. I was 

 very glad to heare this speech, and presently tooke my 

 barke, with eight musketiers, captaine Giffords whery, 

 with himselfe and foure musketiers, and Captaine Cal- 

 field with his whery, and as many ; and so we entred the 

 mouth of this river : and because we were perswaded 

 that it was so nere, we tooke no victuall with us 

 at all. When we had rowed three houres, we mar- 

 velled we saw no signe of any dwelling, and asked the 

 pilot where the towne was : he tolde us a little further. 

 After three houres more, the Sun being almost set, we 

 began to suspect that he led us that way to betray 

 us : for hee confessed that those Spanyards which fled 

 from Trinidad, and also those that remained with Cara- 

 pana in Emeria, were joyned together in some village 

 upon that river. But when it grew towards night ; 

 and wee demanded where the place was ; hee tolde us 

 but foure reaches more. When we had rowed foure 

 and foure ; we saw no signe ; and our poore water-men, 

 even heart-broken, and tired, were ready to give up 

 the ghost : for wee had now come from the galley 

 neere forty miles. 



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