Mr. WAFEKs Voyages, Sec. 13 



Conflux of them. This laft River was as 

 wide and deep as the former ; fo that here we 

 were pat to a Non-plm, not being able to find 

 means to Ford either of them, and they be- 

 ing here too wide for a Tree to go a-crofs, 

 unlefs a greater Tree than we were able to 

 cut down 5 having no Tool with us but a 

 Macheat or long Knife. This laft River alfo Thcy mi _ 

 we fetby the Compafs, and found it run due fake tSmr 

 North : Which confirmed us in our miftake, way * 

 that we were on the North-fide of the main 

 Ridge of Mountains 3 and therefore we re- 

 folv'd upon making two Bark-logs, to float 

 us down the River, which we unanimoufly 

 concluded would bring us to the North-Sea 

 Coaft. The Woods afforded us hollow Bam- 

 boes fit for our purpofe 5 and we* cut them 

 into proper lenghfe, and tied them together 

 with Twigs of a Shrub like a Vine, a great 

 many on the top of one another. 



By that time we had finished our Bark-logs 

 it was Night, and we took up our Lodging 

 on a fmall Hill, where we gathered about a 

 Cartload of Wood, and made a Fire,intending 

 to fet out with our Bark-logs the next Morn- 

 ing. But not long after Sun-fet, it fell a 

 Raining as if Heaven and Earth would meet 5 vibW 

 which Storm was accompanied with horrid Rains, 

 Claps of Thunder, and fuchflafhes of Light- 

 ning, of a Sulpherous fmell, that we were al- 

 moft ftifled in the open Air. 



Thus it continued till 12a Clock at Night j 

 when to our great Terror, we could hear the fS, 



Rivers 



