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Famine. 



Strange accident. 



Ancifut efirape* great dan- 

 ger. 



AMERICA. Chap. III. 



he put them all to the Sword, except a few Youths which were onely faved, 

 that they might inform Fogeda, what was become of the (lain and taken Spani- 

 ards - ^Ko -told him, that according to their Cuftom, they had Roafled the 

 dead, and alfo their living Prifoners, and feafted on their Flefli. Here having 

 burnt the Houfes , and fifting the Allies, Nicutfa found fome Gold. But now 

 they began to be diftrefs'd. for Provifions ; for prevention of which, T^kuefa 

 had given order to Jncifus y Marflial in Hifianiola, that he fhould follow with 

 a Ship of Victual, for the Army to Qodega. But he being kept back by incon- 

 veniencies, moft of the Spaniards were famifh'd, fo that the three hundred Men 

 which Codega brought from Hifyariwla , were reduced to fixty. And he was al- 

 ready under-Sail to Hifyaniola, when Jncifus Anchored in the Haven of Codegoos, 

 and lent fome Men afliore to mend his Boat , and fetch frefh Water, which 

 whilft they were doing, the Natives came flocking about them : Three days 

 they fae'd one another, ufing no Hoftility , when at laft a Spaniard that under- 

 ftood the Qodegan Tongue , adventuring to fetch Water, he was immediately 

 encompaiTed ; when fpcaking to them, and informing them in their own Lan- 

 guage, That he was none of Fogedas or TSQcuefas People, which not long fince 

 had committed fo great (laughter, they left him, and the rather, becaufc he 

 told them, that Jncifus would take revenge on them, if they did any wrong to 

 him. Thus quieted, they brought all forts of Provifions Aboard. Mean while, 

 Ancifm Sail'd to the Main Continent Uraba, where in the Mouth of a Haven he 

 ran his VelTel a-ground,which was bilg'dj tke Sea-men taking fome Arms along 

 with them, fav'd their lives by fwimming afliore • where, their firft fuftenance 

 they found was ftore of Peaches and Cherries, which was a great refreshment 

 in thofe hot Countreys,but yet had undoubtedly been ftarv'd, but that in fcarch- 

 ing the Wood for Fruits, they found WikUSwine, which preferv'd their livesj 

 yet they were not free from apparent danger, having to deal with a Salvage 

 People, into whofe hands they were fo unfortunately caft by Shipwrackj how- 

 ever Jncifus fet a good face on the bufinefs, marching with a hundred Men up 

 into the Countrey, where fome of the Urabanners from an ambufcade unawares, 

 with their Arrows wounded feveral of his Men, hereupon they retreated to 

 the Shore of the River Daria, whitfier alfo they had brought the fmall Boats, 

 fav'd from the Wreck • where whilft they were in confutation how to return 

 to HiJpa?iiola y the Inhabitants having mufter'd themfelves, and making a Body 

 of five hundred Men, fet upon them , who after a fliarp Conflict, made them 

 retreat, and at laft to flie, whom Jncifus purfuing, found in a Thicket of Canes 

 or Reeds a great Treafure of Gold. Mean while , 'Hjcuefa Sail'd to the plen- 

 tiful Golden Countrey Veragua with three Ships , of which he loft two, the 

 one Commanded by Lupus de Olana, and the other by <Peter Umbria Olana, which 

 was ftranded in the River Veragua, which gives name to the whole ttland, but 

 he built a new CarYd, whereas that of Lupus Olana was bilg'd among the Rocks. 

 Little better fuccefs had ISficuefa, whofe Ship over-turning with a Tempeft, he 

 with a few of his Men made land upon Vnagua, where he rang'd up and down 

 in amiferable condition, on a barren, and in a manner defolate Shore feventy 

 days : All that time, finding no other Food than Wild Roots, who wandring 

 up and down, at laft met with Olana, a little before caft away on the fame Ifle, 

 whom he fecur'd, becaufc he prefum'd to ufurp the Title, and be prime Com- 

 mander of that Countrey. Upon which, the Spaniards being divided, fome 

 for Jncifus, fome for Olana, the difference more and more encreafing, would not 

 be reconcile, till the Famine overpowering, mafter'd both, fo that not being 



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