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which grinds it fmall, and then 'tis wafted, made 

 up into the form of Bricks, and lodged in Houfes 

 built at the Mine for that purpofe, over which a 

 Guard is fet, with a Captain and Governour to fee 

 that the King is not cheated : After it has lain fome 

 fhort time in thofe Houfes, then it is wafh'd a 

 fecond time, and fo cleared of the Drofs or fome 

 rocky Part wherewith it's intermixed till there re- 

 rtiains pure Gold. They make a great quantity of 

 Gold every Day they work ; we made five pound 

 weight and nine Ounces in lefs than a Day. Every 

 thing here fells at an Extravagant Rate, as a pound 

 of Sugar at fifteen Shillings, and fo proportionably 

 for all things elfe , they carry what Gold they make 

 every fix Weeks to Panama, which is feven Days 

 Journey from this Town. The Town was now 

 fearch'd more narrowly, when we found more Gold 

 and Plate. 



Next Day our Scouts brought in more Spaniards . 

 and Negroes, than we had already in our Power, fome 

 of whom we fentwith a Guard to the Mine to waffi 

 the Oare, of which they made fix pound weight. 



We fent twenty four Negroes on the third into 

 the Mine, who brought eight Pounds of Gold : 

 Now it was, that we began to punifh fome of the 

 Spaniards and Negroes, to make them difcover 

 where they had hid their Treafure ; the Captain of 

 the Mine (who was our Prifoner) we ty'd up by 

 the Neck fo long, till he was aim oft dead, yet 

 could get nothing out of him, nor the reft, whom 

 we punilhed in the fame manner ; the Priefts having 

 it feems, given them the Sacrament not to dif- 

 cover any thing upon pain of Damnation* But 

 though we could procure nothing this way, we 

 made however fourteen pound weight of Gold on 

 the 4th, as we did fixteeh on the next ; when we 

 thought it time to kill Beef, and other Provifions, 

 and get Mules ready ,to carry our fick Men over 



