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which we crofs'd it at firft 5 intending to pafs 

 down by the fide of this River, which we 

 ftill thought difcharged it felf into the North- 

 Sea.But when we were overhand had gone do wn 

 with the Stream a quarter of a Mile, we efpy'd 

 our Companion fitting on the Bank of the 

 River $ who, when we came to him, told 

 us that the violence of the Stream hurried him 

 thither, and that there, being in an Eddy, 

 he had time to confider where he was 3 and 

 that by the help of fome Boughs that hung 

 in the Water, he had got out This Man 

 had at this time 400 pieces of Eight at his 

 Back : He was a weakly Man, a Taylor by 

 Trade, 



Great Here we lay all Night 5 and the next Day, 

 ^5 d s " being the 5th of our prefent Journey, we 

 p # march 'd further down by the fide of the Ri- 

 ver, thro* Thickets of hollow Bamboes and 

 Brambles, being alfo very weak for want of 

 Food : But Providence fuffefd us not to pe- 

 rifh, tho a Hunger and Wearinefshad brought 

 AfaccJv- us even to Deaths door : For we found there 

 berries, a Maccaw Tree, which afforded us Berries, of 

 which we eat greedily $ and having therewith 

 fomewhat fatisfied our Hunger, we carried 

 a Bundle of them away withus,and continued 

 our march till Night. 

 They are The next Day, being the 6th, we marched 

 RiJers Wlth t*N 4 * n tne Afternoon, when we arrived at 

 another River, which join d with that we 

 had hitherto coafted 3 and we were now in-? 

 clos'd between them, on a little Hill at the 



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