Mr. WAFERS Voyages, &c. 293 



ing over my Mouth. I was* willing to try if they 

 knew me in this Difguife ; and 'twas the better Part 

 of an Flour 'before one of the Crew, looking more 

 narrowly upon me, cry'd out, Here's our Doffor ; 

 and immediately they all congratulated my Arrival 

 among them. I did what I could prefently to wafhTheA. 

 off my Paint; but 'twas near a Month before Jwafliesoflp 

 could get tolerably rid of it, having had my Skin ls ainc * 

 fo long ftain'd with it, and the Pigment dry'd on in 

 the Sun: And when it did come off, 'twas ufually 

 with the peeling off of Skin and all. As for Mr.Mr.G^/^ 

 Gopfon, we brought him alive to the Ship, yet he dies - 

 did not recover his Fatigues, and his drenching in 

 the Water, but having languifh'd aboard about 3 

 Days, he died there at La Sound's Key ; and his 

 Death verify'd another Part of the Pawawer's Pre- 

 diction. Our Indians, having been kindly entertain-The indi- 

 ed aboard for about 6 or 7 Days ; and many ot h er s*^J r g Cum 

 of them, who went to and fro with their Wives and 

 Children, and Lacenia among them, viiiting us a- 

 bout a Fortnight or 3 Weeks, we at length took leave * 

 of them, except 2 or 3 of them who would needs 

 go with us, to Windward ; and we fet foil, with the 

 Tartane in our Company, firft to the more Eaftern T ^ e 7 fer 

 Ifles of the Samballoes* and then towards the Coaft faii 

 of Lartagene. ^ Cartagem, 



But I fhall not enter into the Difcourfe of our 

 Voyage after this, Mr. Dampier, who was in the fame 

 VefTel, haying done it particularly. It may fuffice 

 juft to intimate, That I was cruifing with him up The A*s 

 and down the Weft-India Coaft and Idand, partly^ oaft * n S 

 under Capt. Wright, and partly under Capt* lanky 

 till fuch time as Capt. Tanky left Mr. Dampier and with Mr. 

 the reft under Capt. Wright, at the Me of Salt Tor-P^pier* 

 tuga, as Mr, Dampier relates in the 3d Chapter of his^ d r with 

 Voyage round the World, p. 58. I went then awayr**^. 

 with Capt. Tanky. firft to the Ifle of Afh where thel.of <djjk 

 French took us 3 as he relates occafionally, Chap, 4, 



U 3 . f 68, 



