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to carry my Medicines. He took them a- 

 way with him, together with the reft of my 

 Things, and thereby left me depriv'd of 

 wherewithal to drefs my Sore 3 infomuch 

 that my Pain increafing upon me, and being 

 not able to trudge it further through Rivers 

 and Woods, I took leave of my Compa- 

 ny, and fet up my Reft .among the Damn: 

 Indians. 



This was on theiothDay 5 and there ftaid 

 with me Mr. Richard Gopfon, who had fer- r. G*ffa. 

 ved an Apprenticefhip to a Druggift in Lon- 

 don. He was an ingenious Man, and a good 

 Scholar .5 he had with him a Gra>£ Teftament 

 which he frequently read, and would tran- 

 flate extempore into Englijh to fuch of the 

 Company as were difpos'd to hear him. An- 

 other who ftaid behind with me was John * Hhgr 

 Hingfon^ Mariner : They were both fo fati-M 

 gued with the Journey, that they could go 

 no further. There had been an Order made 

 among us at our firft Landing to kill any who 

 fhould flag in the Journey : But this was made 

 only to terrify any from loitering, and being 

 taken by the Spaniards 5 who by Tortures 

 might extort from them a Difcovery of our 

 March. But this rigorous Order was not ex- 

 ecuted 3 but the Company took a very kin d 

 Leave both of thefe, and of me. Before th^ 

 we had loft the Company of two more of 

 our Men, Robert Spratlin and William Bow- 

 man, who parted with us at the River Congo y 

 the Day after my being fcorch'd with Gun? 



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