i74 MP. WAFERS Voyages, Sec. 



Day-time we had no other Provifion than a few fer- 

 ry green Plantains? he would rife in the Night, and 

 go out by Stealth to the Neighbouring Plantain- 

 walk, and fetch a Bundle of ripe ones from thence, 

 which he would diftribute among us unknown to his 

 Country-men. Not that they were naturally in- 

 clined to ufe us thus roughly, for they are generally 

 a kind and free-hearted People ; but they had taken 

 fame particular Offence, upon the Account of our 

 Friends who left us, who had in a Manner awed the 

 Indian Guides they took with them for the Remain- 

 der of their Journey, and made them go with them 

 very much againft their Wills ; the Severity of the 

 rainy St^on being then fo great, that even the In- 

 dians themfelves had no Mind for travelling, tho' 

 they are little curious either as to the Weather or 

 • Ways. 



When Gopfon* Hingfon, and I had lived 3 or 4 

 x. sprat- Days in this Manner, the other 2, Spratlin and Bow* 

 man y whom we left behind at the River Congo, on 

 W Bow- {he gth Day of our Journey, found their way to 

 us ; being exceedingly fatigued with rambling fo 

 long among the wild Woods and Rivers without 

 Guides, and having no other Suftenance but a few 

 Plantains they found here and there. They told us 

 G.Gamy'sof George Gain y's Difafler, whofe drowning Mr, 

 drowning. Rampier relates p. 17, They faw him lie dead on 

 the Shore which the Floods were gone off from, 

 with the Rope twilled about him, and his Money 

 at his Neck ; but they were fo fatigued, they car'd 

 not to meddle with it. Thefe after their coming up 

 to us, continued with us for about a Fortnight 

 longer, at the fame Plantation where the main Body 

 of our Company had left us; and our Provifion 

 was ftill at the fame Rate, and the Countenances of 

 the Indians as ftern towards us as ever, having yet no 

 News of their Friends whom our Men had taken as 

 their Guides/ Yet notwichftanding their pifguft, 



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