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the other was that kind Indian , who was fo much 

 our Friend as to rife in the Night and get us ripe 

 Plantains. 



Bad Tra- The next Day therefore we were difmiffed with our 

 veiling. 2 Guides, and marched joyfully for 3 Days being 

 well afifured we lhpuld not find that our Men had done 

 any Hurt to their Guides. The firft 3 Days we rnarch'd 

 through nothing but Swamps, having great Rains, 

 with much Thundering and Lightning and lodg'd 

 every Night under the dropping Trees, $ipon the 

 cold Ground. The third Night we lodg'd on a fmall 

 Hill, which by the next Morning was become an 

 Ifland: For thofe great Rains had made fuch a 

 Flood, that all the 16# Land about it was cover 5 d 

 deep with Water. All this while we had no Provifi- 

 on, except a Handful of dry Maiz our Indian 

 Guides gave us the' firft 2 Days: But this being 

 fpent, they return'd Home again, and left us to 

 fhift for our felves. 



At this Hill we remained the 4th Day , and on 

 the 5th, the Waters being abated, we fet forward, 

 fleering North by a Pocket Compafs, and marched 

 till 6 a Clock at Night : At which Time we arrived 

 at a River about 46 Foot wide, and very deep. 

 Here we found a Tree fallen Crofs the River, and 

 fo we believ'd our Men had paft that way.; therefore 

 here we fat down, and confulted what Courfe we 

 fhould take. 



They are And having debated the Matter, it was concluded 

 be wild- U pon tocrofs the River, and feek the Path in which 

 they had travelled : For this River running fome- . 

 what Northward in this Place^we perfwaded our 

 felves we were paft the main Ridge of Land that di- 

 vided the North-part of the Iftbmus from the South ; 

 and confequently that we were not very far from the 

 North-Sea. Befides, we did not confider that the \ 

 great Rains were the only Caufe of the fudden Ri- 

 ling and Falling of the River > but thought the 



