Mr. W A F E K's Voyages y .ike 2 3 



a Speech in my Praife, and commending me 

 as much Superiour to any of their Do&ors. 

 Thus I was carried about from Plantation to 

 Plantation, and lived in great Splendor and 

 Repute, adrniniftring bothPhyfick and Phle- 

 botomy to thole tha t wanted. For though I 

 loft my Salves and Plaifters, when the Ne- 

 gro ran away with my Knapfick, yet I pre- 

 fer v'd a Box of Inftruments, and a few Me- 

 dicaments wrapt up in an Oil Cloth, by ha v- 

 ing them in my Pocket, where I generally 

 carried them. 



I lived thus fome Months among the In- 

 dhns, who in a manner ador'd me. Some 

 of thefe Indians had been Slaves to the Spa* 

 niards, and had made their efcapes 5 which f 

 fuppofe was the caufe of their expreffing a 

 defire of Baptifm : But more to have am Eu- 

 ropean Name given them than for any thing 

 they know of Chriftianity. 



During my abode with Laccnta y I often ac- j^J?* 

 companied him a Hunting, wherein he took with 1 

 great delight, here being good Game. J was 

 one time about the beginning of the dry Sea*- 

 fon, accompanying him toward the South 

 Eaft part of the Country, and we pafs'd by 

 a River where the Spaniards were gathering 

 Gold. I took this River to be one of thofe Gold 

 which comes from the Gulph of St. Michael, ^ 

 When we came near the Place where they 

 wrought, we ftole foftly through the Woods, 

 and placing our felves behind the great Trees, 

 looked qii them a good while, they not 

 N C 4 feeing 



