■ap"2 Mr. WAFERS P*oyages y Sec. 



Being over-fet, and our Canoa turned up fide dowil^ 

 we got to Shore as well as we could, and dragg'd 

 Mr. Gopfon with us, tho* with Difficulty. Then we 

 put off again, and kept more along the Shore, and at 

 They go length flood over to La Sound's Key, where the 2 

 offto the Ships lay, an Englifh Sloop, and a Spanifh Tartan* 

 P s * which the Englifh had taken but 2 or 3 Days before. 

 We knew by the Make of this laft that it was a Spanifh 

 Veffel, before we came up with it: But feeing it in 

 Company with an Englifh one, we thought they muft 

 be Conforts ; and whether the Spanifh Veffel fhould 

 prove to be under the Englifh one, or the Englifh un- 

 der that, we were refolv'd to put it to the Venture, 

 and get aboard, being quite tir'd with our Stay a- 

 niong the wild Indians. The Indians were more afraid 

 of its being a Veffel of Spaniards, their Enemies as well 

 as ours : For this was another Particular they told 

 us io Days before, when they were Pawawing, that 

 when their Oracle informed them that 2 Veffels 

 would arrive at this Time, they underftood by their 

 Demons Anfwer, that one of them would be an 

 Englifh one but as to the other, he fpake fo dubi- 

 ously, that they were much afraid it would be a 

 Spanifh one and 'twas not without great Difficulty 

 that we now perfwaded them to go aboard with us ; 

 which was another remarkable Circumftance, fince 

 this Veffel was not only a Spanifh one, but actually 

 under the Command of. the Spaniards at the Time 

 of the Pawawingy and fome Days after r till taken 

 by the Englifh. 



They and went aboard the Englifh Sloop, and our Indu 



ihtindiaman Fiiends with us, and were receiv'd with a very 

 * ecei jd a- hearty Welcome. The 4 Englifhmen with me were 

 r prefently known and carefs'd by the Ship's Crew ; 

 but I fat a while cringing upon my Hams among 

 the Indians, after their Fafhion, painted as they 

 were, and all naked but only about the Waift, and 

 with my Nofe-piece (of which more hereafter J hang- 



