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failing fix days more, we arriv'd at the Point or 

 Lands-end of that Ifland which you fee mark'd in 

 my Map with a Flower-de-luce. 3 Twas then the 

 19th day of December, and we had not yet felt all 

 the rigorous Hardftiips of the Cold. As foon as I 

 had landed and fitted up my Tents or Hutts, I de- 

 tached my Effanapes Slaves to the firft of the three 

 Villages that lay before us; for I had avoided flop- 

 ping at fome Villages in an Ifland upon which we 

 coafted in the Night-time, The Slaves returned in 

 a great Alarm, occafion'd by the unfavourable An- 

 fwer they received from the Gnacfitares, who took us 

 for Spaniards, and were angry with them for con- 

 ducting us to their Country. I fliall not be minute 

 in every Particular that happened, for fear of tyring 

 your Patience 3 Tis fufficient to acquaint you, that 

 Upon the Report of my Slaves I immediately em- 

 hark'd, and pofted my felf in another Ifland that 

 by in the middle between the great Ifland and the 

 Continent; but I did not fufifer the Effanapes to be 

 in my Camp. In the mean time the Gnacfitares feet 

 expeditious Couriers to the People that live eighty 

 Leagues to, the Southward of them, to defire they 

 would fend fome of their number to examine us ; for 

 that People were fuppos'd to be well acquainted with 

 the Spaniards of New Mexico. The lengths of the 

 Journey did not difcourage 'em , for they came as 

 chearfuily as if it had been upon a National Con- 

 cern : and after taking a view of our Cloaths, our 

 Swords, our Fufees, our Air, Complexion , and 

 manner of Speech, were fore d to own that we were 

 not true Spaniards? Thefe Confiderations, join'd to 

 the Account I gave ? em of the Reafons upon which 

 I undertook the Voyage, of the War we were ingag'd 

 in againft Spain y and of the Country to the Eaftward 

 f:hat we poflefs'd ; thefe, I fay, had fo much influ- 

 ence, as to undeceive 'era. Then they invited me 

 to encamp in their Ifland, and brought me a fort of 



Grain 



