Mr. WAFERS Voyages, &c. 389 



I fhall not purfue all my Coafting along this Shore 

 with Captain Davis \ but two Particulars more I 

 muft not omit : The one is, that we put afhore at 

 Vermejo^ in 10 Deg. S. Lat. There we landed a- 

 bout 30 Men fof whom I was onej to fee for Wa- 

 ter, or any other Refrefhment that we wanted, Vermejo^ 

 After we were landed, we marched about 4 Miles 

 up a fandy Bay ; all which we found covered with 

 the Bodies of Men, Women and Children \ which ' 

 lay fo thick, that a Man might if he would, have 

 walked half a Mile, and never trod a Step off a Dead Bo- 

 dead human Body. Thefe Bodies to Appearance, dlesin 

 feem'das if they had not been above a Week dead » Numbers* 

 but if you handled them, they proved as dry and 

 light as a Spunge or piece of Cork. After we had 

 been fome Time afhore we efpyed a Smoak \ and 

 making up to it, found an old Man, a Spanijh In-* 

 dian 9 who was ranging along the Sea-fide, to find 

 fome dried Sea-weeds, to drefs fome Fifh which his . 

 Company had caught ; for he belonged to a Fifh- 

 jng Boat hard by. We asked him many Queftions, 

 in Spanifh , about the Place, and how thofe dead Bo- 

 dies came there ? To which he returned for anfwer, 

 that in his Father's Time the Soil there, which now 

 yielded nothing, was green, well- cultivated and 

 fruitful : That the City of Wormia had been well 

 inhabited with Indians: And that they were fo niii 

 merous, that they could have handed a Fifh, from 

 Hand to Hand, qo Leagues from the Sea, until it 

 had come to the King or Tanca's Hand : That the 

 River was very deep, and the Current ftrong : And 

 that the Reafon of thofe dead Bodies was, that 

 when the Spaniards came, and block'd up and 

 laid Siege to the City, the Indians rather than lie 

 at the Spaniards Mercy, dug Holes in the Sand, 

 and buried themfelves alive. The Men as they 

 now lie, have with them their broken Bows \ an4 



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