Mr. WATERY Voyages, &c 28 r 



This was a new Vexation to us, and how to pro- In danger 

 ceed farther we knew not ; but Providence ftill di- of S oin g 

 reded all for the better : For if we had gone down th^i^Enc- 

 this Riyer, which we afterwrds underftood to be a mies. 

 River that runs into the River of Cheapo, and fo to- River of 

 wards the Bay of Panama and the South Sea, it cheapo* 

 would have carried us into the midft of our Ene- 

 mies, the Spaniards, from whom we could expedt 

 no Mercy. 



The Neighbourhood of the Mountains, and 

 Steepnefs of the Defcent, is the caufe that the Rivers 

 rife thus fuddenly after thefe violent Rains , but for 

 the fame Reafon they as fuddenly fall again. 



But to return to my Story : being thus fruftrated 

 of our Defign of going down the Stream, or of 

 crofling either of thefe Rivers, by Reafon of the 

 finking of our Bark-logs, we were glad to think of 

 returning back to the Indian Settlement, and Coaft- They are 

 ed up the River- fide in the fame Track we came forc'd to 

 home by. As our Hunger was ready to carry our return * 

 Eyes to any Objeft that might afford us fome Re- 

 lief, it hapned that we efpied a Deer faft afleep : 

 Whjch we defign'd if pofTible to get, and in order 

 to it we came fo very near, that we might almoft 

 have thrown our felves on him : But one of our 

 Men putting the Muzzle of his Gun clofe to him, 

 and the fliot not being wadded, tumbled out, juft 

 before the Gun went off, and did the Deer no hurt ; 

 but ftarting up at the Noife, he took the River and 

 Twam over. As long as our way lay by the River 

 fide, we made a fliift to keep it well enough : But 

 being now to take leave of the River, in order to 

 feek for the Indians Habitation, we were much at a 

 lofs, This was the Eighth Day, and we had no 

 Sufteiience befide the Maccaw-Benks we had got, 

 find, the Pith of a Bibby-Tret we met with, which 

 $r.c fplit and eat very favouffy. 



After 



