z$6 Mr. WAFERS Voyages, Sec. 



about from Plantation to Plantation, and lived m 

 great Splendour and Repute, adminiftring both 

 Phyfick and Phlebotomy to thole that wanted* 

 For though I loft my Salves and Plaifters, when . 

 the Negro ran away with my Knapfack, yet I 

 preferv'd a Box of Inftruments, and a few Medi- 

 caments wrapt up in an Oil Cloth, by having them 

 in my Pocket, where I generally carried them. 



I lived thus fome Months among the Indians , 

 who in a Manner ador'd me. Some of thefe Indi- 

 ans had been Slaves to the Spaniards, and had made 

 their Efcapes ; which I fuppofe was the Caufe of 

 their exprefling a Defire of Baptifm : But more to 

 have an European Name given them thar^ for any 

 thing they know of Chriftianity. 

 He goes a During my Abode with Lacenta, I -often' aefcorri* 

 Hunting panied him a Hunting, wherein he took great De- 

 7enta La ' ^S^t, here being good Game. I was one Time a- 

 bout the Beginning of the dry Seafon, accompany- 

 ing him toward the Sou th-Eaft part of the Country, 

 and we pafs'd by a River where the Spaniards were 

 GoldRi- gathering Gold. I took this River to be one of thofe 

 ver. which comes from the Gulph of Sc. Michael When 

 we came near the Place where they wrought, 

 we ftole foftly through the Woods, and placing our 

 felves behind the great Trees, looked on them a 

 The way good while, they not feeing us. The Manner of 

 ptg-arher- their getting Gold is as follows. They have little 

 I Goid ' wooden Difhes which they dip foftly into the: Water, 

 and take it up half full of Sand, which they draw 

 gently out of the Water i and every dipping they 

 •take up Gold mix'd with the Sand Water, more or 

 iefs. This they fhake, and the Sand rifeth, and 

 goes over the Brims of the Difli with the Water-, 

 but the Gold fettle^ to the Bottom. This done 

 they bring it out and dry it in the Sun, and then 

 pound it in a Mortar. Then they take if out and 



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