16 Mr. WAFER'S Voyages, Sec. 



a Voice hard by me which in fome fort revi^ 

 ved me $ but efpecially when I fa w Mr. Hingfort 

 one of my Companions, and the reft found 

 us prefently after 5 having all fav'd them- 

 felves by climbing final 1 Trees. We greeted 

 each other with Tears in our Eyes, and re- 

 turned Thanks to God for our deliverance. 



The firft thing we did in the Morning was 

 to look after our Bark-logs or Rafts which 

 we had left tied to a Tree, in order toperfe- 

 cute our Voyage down the River $ but com- 

 ing to the Place where we left them, we 

 found them funk and full of Water, which 

 had got into the hollow of the Bamboes, 

 contrary to our expe&ation ^ for we thought 

 they would not have admitted fo much as 

 Air, but have been like large Bladders full 

 blown : But it feems there were Cracks in 

 them which we did not perceive, and perhaps 

 made in them by our Carelefnefs in in wor- 

 king them ^ for the VelTels made of thefe 

 hollow Bamboes are wont to hold Water* 

 very well. 



la danger This was a new Vexation to us, and how 

 fmoTg g to P roCee d farther we knew not $ but Provi- 

 their Ene- denee ftill dire&ed all for the better : For if 

 mjes we had gone down this River, which we af- 

 terwards underftood to be a River that runs 



cl ve « f * nto t ^ ie ^ ver °f Cheapo, and fo towards the 

 \ MKf0m Bay of Panama and the South Sea, it would 

 have carried us into the midft of our Enemies, 

 the Spaniards, from whom we could expeft 

 no Mercy- 



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